how to move files from one folder to other with appending time stamp to the name?

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Renaming a bunch of files with date modified timestamp at the end of the filename?

I want to move files from one folder to another folder with appending time stamp to file names.

For example, I have two files called file1 and file2 in folder f1.

I want to move these files to folder f2 as file names file1_22_jan_11:42 and file2_22_jan_11:42.

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 06 '12 at 18:19

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If that time stamp is meant to be the modification time of the file, with GNU find and xargs, you could do:

find f1 -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -printf '%p\0f2/%f_%Td_%Tb_%TH:%TM\0' |
  xargs -r0n2 echo mv

and remove echo when happy.

answered Dec 06 '12 at 18:19

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 06 '12 at 18:47

To copy somefile to otherplace/somefile_ with modification date appended (eg, 2012_12_06):

cp somefile otherplace/somefile_`stat --printf=%y somefile | sed -e 's/ .*//'`

Probably easiest if you put that in a script:

#!/bin/bash

suffix=_`stat --printf=%y $1 | sed -e 's/ .*//'`
cp $1 $2/$1_$suffix

Name it 'mycp' and you can go:

mycp somefile otherplace

For the stat info, see man stat.

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