[Malvern] Another Shell Scripting Q

[Andy Lowton]

Hi,

Assuming you do mean spaces in your first example then this does the
job. NB Both scripts work on the directory you are in.

l8z

andy

#!/usr/bin/python

import os, re

dir = "."

for file in os.listdir(dir):

  m = re.search("(.+) (\d\d) (\d\d) (\d\d\d\d)$", file) 

  if m:

     prefix = m.group(1)
     year = m.group(4)
     month =m.group(3)
     day = m.group(2)
     
     newfile = prefix + "_" + day + "-" + month + "-" + year
     
     print "Renaming file: " + file + " to " + newfile

     os.rename(file, newfile)

  else:

     print "Ignoring file: " + file