Re: rename based on file name

On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:18:11 -0300, Cesar Rabak wrote:

> 
> The OP can elide all the AWK contortion using an appropriate port of the
> unix utility date for its OS (which I surmise is a variety of Windows
due
> the use of winzip.exe):
> 
> 
> C:\>c:\usr\local\wbin\date.exe
> Wed Mar 26 18:06:59 BST 2008
> 
> C:\>c:\usr\local\wbin\date.exe -d yesterday Tue Mar 25 18:07:07 BST 2008
> 
> C:\>c:\usr\local\wbin\date.exe -d "2 days ago" Mon Mar 24 18:07:13 BST
> 2008
> 
> These dates can be formated as above:
> 
> C:\>c:\usr\local\wbin\date.exe +%Y%m%d 20080326
> 
> C:\>c:\usr\local\wbin\date.exe-d yesterday +%Y%m%d 20080325
> 
> C:\>c:\usr\local\wbin\date.exe -d "2 days ago" +%Y%m%d 20080324
> 

True, but this is an awk group: he is known to have gawk and TAWK, but
is not known to have any of the other highly useful Gnu ports.
(<http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages.html>)

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