Need to rename files parsing date formats in the filename [SOLVED]

graysky · 2014-06-07 09:27:33

Godaddy changed the naming scheme of their server logs again. I need some perl or something magic that will convert format A to format B. Doing this is bash is going to be painful so I'm hoping some of your perl or python ninjas out there could help me.

format A: ex20140425000001.log
format B: Wed, May 21, 2014.log

So for the example above, that date needs to be converted to this name: ex20140521000001.log

Thanks in advance!

EDIT: nevermind... forgot about date.

#!/bin/bash
for i in *.log; do
	fixeddate="$(echo $i | sed -e 's/,//g' -e 's/^....//' -e 's/.log//')"
	useitdate="$(date -d "$fixeddate" +%Y%m%d%H%M%S)"
	newname="ex$useitdate.log"
	mv "$i" "$newname"
done

Last edited by graysky (2014-06-07 09:41:59)

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Need to rename files parsing date formats in the filename [SOLVED]

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