Need to rename files parsing date formats in the filename [SOLVED]

Question

Godaddy changed the naming scheme of their server logs again.  I need some perl or something magic that will convert format A to format B.  Doing this is bash is going to be painful so I'm hoping some of your perl or python ninjas out there could help me.
format A:  ex20140425000001.log
format B: Wed, May 21, 2014.log
So for the example above, that date needs to be converted to this name: ex20140521000001.log
Thanks in advance!
EDIT: nevermind... forgot about date.
#!/bin/bash
for i in *.log; do
fixeddate="$(echo $i | sed -e 's/,//g' -e 's/^....//' -e 's/.log//')"
useitdate="$(date -d "$fixeddate" +%Y%m%d%H%M%S)"
newname="ex$useitdate.log"
mv "$i" "$newname"
done
Last edited by graysky (2014-06-07 09:41:59)

Answer 1

sempervirent,
You're asking for some pretty advanced file naming. Most people aren't going to need that sort of function, so I doubt there will be a hook into Aperture to do such a thing. I suggest using a shell script or Applescript along with EXIFTool to rename files before you import them into Aperture. http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
Retain the unique number that the image already has
If you're not afraid of the command line, it's easy enough to use a tool like awk or maybe perl to parse that sequence number from a well-formatted string like the picture name
Replace "DSC" with the camera model (D3X)
You can use EXIFTool to extract the camera model from the EXIF dat ain the photos
Add a digit prior to the four-digit string to indicate the true numeric sequence of the file.
Good luck with this one. You'll have to do a filename search through all of your previous files to find out what 10,000 you're on. It's possible, but you'd have to do some specialized coding in AppleScript or shell script.
nathan