I sometimes find myself with scads of files in a directory that, due to the vagaries of sort() do not show up in the “right” order. For example, 1.png, 2.png, … 751.png.
I was poking around with rename, but I wasn’t finding a good way to do this. Thankfully, a poster on TLUG showed me how to use sprintf to get the results I wanted, like so:
rename -n 's/(\d+)/sprintf("%04d", $1)/e' *.png
Very neat.
This is the widget code to have a Go to Date widget in WordPress. It requires the correct permalink structure, but it is easy to paste into a text widget and it works nicely.
<script type="text/javascript">
function gotodate() {
var baseurl = "http://example.com/index.php/"
var y = document.getElementById("year").value;
var m = document.getElementById("month").value;
var d = document.getElementById("day").value;
//debug alert(y + m + d);
var newloc = baseurl + y + "/" + m + "/" + d
window.location = newloc
}
<form>
<table>
<tr>
<td>Year:</td>
<td>Month:</td>
<td>Day:</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><input type="text" id="year" size="4" maxlength="4" /></td>
<td><input type="text" id="month" size="2" maxlength="2" /></td>
<td><input type="text" id="day" size="2" maxlength="2" /></td>
<td><input type="button" value="Go" onclick="javascript:gotodate();" /></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
I’ve been meaning to write here for a while, but between a crazed toddler and a new job and very, very occasional sleep, I haven’t gotten around to it. However, this post suggests that that might be changing :-) We will have to see.