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Aug 3, 2009 | 7:43 pm

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Dodge DeBoulet

Join Date: May 2004

Location: Exclusively OMNI/PR, for Reasons

Posts: 4,186

Can I play too?

c> perl -e "opendir DIR,q(.);foreach (readdir DIR) {rename $_,sprintf q(%4d-%02d-%02d%s),$3+2000,$1,$2,$4 if m/(\d+)-(\d+)-(\d+)(.*)/}" *

Of course, Perl is mandatory

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