Append Creation Date to Filename
Summary: Renames the selected records with the creation date at the end of the filename.
Requires: EagleFiler
Install Location: ~/Library/Scripts/Applications/EagleFiler/
Last Modified: 2019-10-02
Description
This adds the creation date (in the format yyyymmddhhmmss) to the end of the selected records’ filenames.
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Script
tell application "EagleFiler"
set _records to selected records of browser window 1
repeat with _record in _records
set _dateString to my stringFromDate(_record's creation date)
set _record's basename to _record's basename & " " & _dateString
end repeat
end tell
on stringFromDate(_date)
-- yyyymmddhhmmss
set _string to ""
set _string to _string & my stringFromNumber(_date's year, 4)
set _string to _string & my stringFromNumber(_date's month as integer, 2)
set _string to _string & my stringFromNumber(_date's day, 2)
set _string to _string & my stringFromNumber(_date's hours, 2)
set _string to _string & my stringFromNumber(_date's minutes, 2)
set _string to _string & my stringFromNumber(_date's seconds, 2)
return _string
end stringFromDate
on stringFromNumber(_number, _digitsToPad)
return text -_digitsToPad through -1 of ("0000" & _number)
end stringFromNumber