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one-liner to rename a file

 
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one-liner to rename a file
beef
post 10 Apr, 2008 - 12:03 PM
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I need a little help with a one-liner I'm trying to use. I want to rename a file with a date stamp (ex test.txt renamed to test-04-10-08.txt)

Here's what I'm trying right now.
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perl -e rename('test.txt','test-' . ((localtime)[4]+1900) . '-' . ((localtime)[3]+1) . '-' . ((localtime)[5]) . '.txt');


suggestions?
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post 10 Apr, 2008 - 12:31 PM
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I believe you have to put quotes around the code part after the -e switch. If you are on Linux or Unix change all the single-quotes to double-quotes and wrap the code in single-quotes:

-e ' print "$foo\n";'

its the opposite with Windows

-e " print \"$foo\n\";"

or use qq to avoid the escapes:

-e " print qq{$foo\n};"
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post 10 Apr, 2008 - 12:51 PM
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That did it, thanks for your help.
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