forked from Github/date2name
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8.4 KiB
Org Mode
193 lines
8.4 KiB
Org Mode
* Handling time-stamps and date-stamps in file names
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[[file:screencast.gif]]
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Per default, date2name gets the modification time of matching files
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and directories and adds a datestamp in standard ISO 8601+ format
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YYYY-MM-DD (http://datestamps.org/index.shtml) at the beginning of
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the file- or directoryname.
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If an existing timestamp is found, its style will be converted to the
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selected ISO datestamp format but the numbers stays the same.
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Executed with an examplefilename "file" this results e.g. in
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"2008-12-31_file".
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Note: Other that defined in ISO 8601+ the delimiter between hours,
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minutes, and seconds is not a colon but a dot. Colons are causing
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several problems on different file systems and are there fore replaced
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with the (older) DIN 5008 version with dots.
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: Usage:
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: date2name [options] file ...
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Run "date2name --help" for usage hints
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: Options:
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: -h, --help show this help message and exit
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: -d, --directories modify only directory names
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: -f, --files modify only file names
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: -C, --compact use compact datestamp (YYYYMMDD)
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: -M, --month use datestamp with year and month (YYYY-MM)
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: -w, --withtime use datestamp including seconds (YYYY-MM-DDThh.mm.ss)
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: -m, --mtime take modification time for datestamp [default]
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: -c, --ctime take creation time for datestamp
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: -q, --quiet do not output anything but just errors on console
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: -v, --verbose enable verbose mode
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: --nocorrections do not convert existing datestamps to new format
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: -s, --dryrun enable dryrun mode: just simulate what would happen, do
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: not modify files or directories
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: --version display version and exit
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* Installation
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Get it from [[https://github.com/novoid/date2name][GitHub]] or install it via «pip install date2name».
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* Integration Into Common Tools
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** Integration into Thunar
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[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunar][Thunar]] is a popular GNU/Linux file browser for the xfce environment.
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Unfortunately, it is rather complicated to add custom commands to
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Thunar. I found [[https://askubuntu.com/questions/403922/keyboard-shortcut-for-thunar-custom-actions][a good description]] which you might want to follow.
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To my disappoinment, even this manual confguration is not stable
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somehow. From time to time, the IDs of ~$HOME/.config/Thunar/uca.xml~
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and ~$HOME/.config/Thunar/accels.scm~ differ.
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For people using Org-mode, I automated the updating process (not the
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initial adding process) to match IDs again:
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Script for checking "tag": do it ~tag-ID~ and path in ~accels.scm~ match?
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: #+BEGIN_SRC sh :var myname="tag"
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: ID=`egrep -A 2 "<name>$myname" $HOME/.config/Thunar/uca.xml | grep unique-id | sed 's#.*<unique-id>##' | sed 's#<.*$##'`
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: echo "$myname-ID of uca.xml: $ID"
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: echo "In accels.scm: "`grep -i "$ID" $HOME/.config/Thunar/accels.scm`
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: #+END_SRC
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If they don't match, following script re-writes ~accels.scm~ with the current ID:
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: #+BEGIN_SRC sh :var myname="tag" :var myshortcut="<Alt>t"
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: ID=`egrep -A 2 "<name>$myname" $HOME/.config/Thunar/uca.xml | grep unique-id | sed 's#.*<unique-id>##' | sed 's#<.*$##'`
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: echo "appending $myname-ID of uca.xml to accels.scm: $ID"
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: mv $HOME/.config/Thunar/accels.scm $HOME/.config/Thunar/accels.scm.OLD
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: grep -v "\"$myshortcut\"" $HOME/.config/Thunar/accels.scm.OLD > $HOME/.config/Thunar/accels.scm
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: rm $HOME/.config/Thunar/accels.scm.OLD
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: echo "(gtk_accel_path \"<Actions>/ThunarActions/uca-action-$ID\" \"$myshortcut\")" >> $HOME/.config/Thunar/accels.scm
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: #+END_SRC
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** Integration into Windows Explorer for single files
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Create a registry file =add_date2name_to_context_menu.reg= and edit it
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to meet the following template. Please make sure to replace the paths
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(python, =USERNAME= and =date2name.py=) accordingly:
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#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
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;; for files:
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[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\date2name]
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@="date2name (single file)"
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[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\date2name\command]
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@="C:\\Python36\\python.exe C:\\Users\\USERNAME\\src\\date2name\\date2name.py -i \"%1\""
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#+END_EXAMPLE
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Execute the reg-file, confirm the warnings (you are modifying your
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Windows registry after all) and cheer up when you notice "date2name
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(single file)" in the context menu of your Windows Explorer.
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As the heading and the link name suggests: [[https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6440715/how-to-pass-multiple-filenames-to-a-context-menu-shell-command][this method works on single
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files]]. So if you select three files and invoke this context menu item,
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you will get three different filetag-windows to tag one file each.
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** Integration into Windows Explorer for single and multiple selected files
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Create a batch file in your home directory. Adapt the paths to meet
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your setup. The content looks like:
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: C:\Python36\python.exe C:\Users\USERNAME\src\date2name\date2name.py -i %*
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If you want to confirm the process (and see error messages and so
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forth), you might want to append as well following line:
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: set /p DUMMY=Hit ENTER to continue ...
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My batch file is located in =C:\Users\USERNAME\bin\date2name.bat=. Now
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create a lnk file for it (e.g., via Ctrl-Shift-drag), rename the lnk
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file to =date2name.lnk= and move the lnk file to
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=~/AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/Windows/SendTo/=.
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This way, you get a nice entry in your context menu sub-menu "Send to"
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which is also correctly tagging selection of files as if you put the
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list of selected items to a single call of date2name.
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** Integration into FreeCommander
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[[http://freecommander.com/en/summary/][FreeCommander]] is a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_manager#Orthodox_file_managers][orthodox file manager]] for Windows. You can add
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filetags as an favorite command:
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- Tools → Favorite tools → Favorite tools edit... (S-C-y)
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- Create new toolbar (if none is present)
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- Icon for "Add new item"
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- Name: date2name
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- Program or folder: <Path to date2name.bar>
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- =date2name.bat= looks like: (please do modify the paths to meet your requirement)
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: C:\Python36\python.exe C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\src\date2name\date2name %*
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: REM optionally: set /p DUMMY=Hit ENTER to continue...
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- Start folder: =%ActivDir%=
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- Parameter: =%ActivSel%=
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- [X] Enclose each selected item with ="=
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- Hotkey: select next available one such as =Ctrl-1= (it gets overwritten below)
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- remember its name such as "Favorite tool 01"
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- OK
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So far, we've got =date2name= added as a favorite command which can be
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accessed via menu or icon toolbar and the selected keyboard shortcut.
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If you want to assign a different keyboard shortcut than =Ctrl-1= like
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=Alt-d= you might as well follow following procedure:
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- Tools → Define keyboard shortcuts...
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- Scroll down to the last section "Favorite tools"
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- locate the name such as "Favorite tool 01"
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- Define your shortcut of choice like =Alt-d= in the right hand side of the window
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- If your shortcut is taken, you'll get a notification. Don't
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overwrite essential shortcuts you're using.
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- OK
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* Related tools and workflows
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This tool is part of a tool-set which I use to manage my digital files
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such as photographs. My work-flows are described in [[http://karl-voit.at/managing-digital-photographs/][this blog posting]]
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you might like to read.
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In short:
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For *tagging*, please refer to [[https://github.com/novoid/filetag][filetag]] and its documentation.
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See [[https://github.com/novoid/date2name][date2name]] for easily adding ISO *time-stamps or date-stamps* to
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files.
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For *easily naming and tagging* files within file browsers that allow
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integration of external tools, see [[https://github.com/novoid/appendfilename][appendfilename]] (once more) and
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[[https://github.com/novoid/filetag][filetag]].
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Moving to the archive folders is done using [[https://github.com/novoid/move2archive][move2archive]].
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Having tagged photographs gives you many advantages. For example, I
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automatically [[https://github.com/novoid/set_desktop_background_according_to_season][choose my *desktop background image* according to the
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current season]].
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Files containing an ISO time/date-stamp gets indexed by the
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filename-module of [[https://github.com/novoid/Memacs][Memacs]].
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* How to Thank Me
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I'm glad you like my tools. If you want to support me:
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- Send old-fashioned *postcard* per snailmail - I love personal feedback!
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- see [[http://tinyurl.com/j6w8hyo][my address]]
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- Send feature wishes or improvements as an issue on GitHub
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- Create issues on GitHub for bugs
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- Contribute merge requests for bug fixes
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- Check out my other cool [[https://github.com/novoid][projects on GitHub]]
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