On Mon, 1 May 2017 10:03:25 PM Russell Coker via luv-main wrote:
> On Mon, 1 May 2017 08:18:03 PM Mark Trickett via luv-main wrote:
> > I have photos from my mobile phone, an old Nokia 6021, and readily get
> > them onto the PC. The problem is the naming, the first eight
> > characters are the date, two digits for the day, two for the month
> > then four for the year. I wish to reorder them to be year, month and
> > then day. That portion of the filename is then followed by brackets
> > with a three digit sequence number for the second and subsequent
> > photos on the day. it would be good to add the brackets with three
> > zeros when not present. That is followed by a period and the jpg
> > extension.
>
for n in ????????*jpg ; do
DATE=$(echo $n|cut -c 5-8)$(echo $n|cut -c 3-4)$(echo $n|cut -c 1-2)
echo touch -t${DATE}0000 $n
echo mv -i $n new/)${DATE}$(echo $n|cut -c 9-80)
done
I missed a close bracket on my first try.
>
> The above MIGHT do what you want. Note that I have it "echo" the commands
> not run them. So paste the above in the shell and see if the mv commands
> are to your liking. Also note that it's moving files to a directory named
> "new" to avoid double-processing.
>
> The touch command sets the correct date so you can sort it by date as well.
>
> Also you could expand that touch command to convert the 3 digit number of
> photos per day to hours and minutes if you want to have a strict date order
> work.
>
> Naturally this will start a contest of writing the best shell code to solve
> your problem. ;)
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