We can tell the date command to do a little more formatting to get exactly what we want. It's still not quite what we want it to be as a file name. Tuesday, Dec 17, the time and the time zone and the year.
So it's going to basically going to take the results of this stat command and then put it through date dash r which will return a nice looking date. Date dash r, then we'll put in parentheses what we were doing before with a dollar sign there. Something I could read so I can use the Date command to format that. It is the number of seconds since January 1, 1970. When I hit Return you can see I get the creation date. So this is the name of one of the files here. stat dash f, for file, and then %B and then the name of the file. Now to get the date created in the Terminal you can use this stat command. Drag the folder there and then hit Return. If you're not in that folder you can just do CD for change directory. So first here I am in Terminal and I'm in the same folder. What I'm going to do is put that in Automator so I can have it as a service and easily apply it. So now I can the created a date for all these files. Then I can see one of the options is to see Date Created. Here are the contents and the first thing is I want to use the date created. Then you can easily apply it to one or many files. Then the easiest was to access it is to put the shell script inside of Automator in a Quick Action. So what if you wanted to rename a file adding the date of the file before the existing file name or if these are photos using the date that the photo was taken stored in the metadata for the file. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of supporters.
#Automator mac move files to new dated folder how to
Today I want to show you how to write a Shell Script for Automator that will rename files using the date of the file or photo.
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