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From: andrew clarke <ozzmosis@gmail.com>
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Subject: rename file based on file's timestamp
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Hi,

Hopefully, a simple request...

I have a series of files in a directory:

-rw-r--r--  1 ozzmosis  ozzmosis  115201253 Jul 28  2006 209.mp3
-rw-r--r--  1 ozzmosis  ozzmosis  115201253 Jul 31  2006 212.mp3
-rw-r--r--  1 ozzmosis  ozzmosis  115201253 Aug  1  2006 213.mp3
-rw-r--r--  1 ozzmosis  ozzmosis  115201253 Aug  2  2006 214.mp3
-rw-r--r--  1 ozzmosis  ozzmosis  115201253 Aug  3  2006 215.mp3

etc.

Now I want to rename these so the new filenames are based on the file's
timestamp, like so:

-rw-r--r--  1 ozzmosis  ozzmosis  115201253 Jul 28  2006 2006-07-28.mp3
-rw-r--r--  1 ozzmosis  ozzmosis  115201253 Jul 31  2006 2006-07-31.mp3
-rw-r--r--  1 ozzmosis  ozzmosis  115201253 Aug  1  2006 2006-08-01.mp3
-rw-r--r--  1 ozzmosis  ozzmosis  115201253 Aug  2  2006 2006-08-02.mp3
-rw-r--r--  1 ozzmosis  ozzmosis  115201253 Aug  3  2006 2006-08-03.mp3

I can write some Python code to do this, but maybe there is another way,
perhaps using a shell script.  Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Regards
Andrew