List file names with modified time stamp customized

Commands used to list files from a directory yields results of more details and time stamp with GMT values. To customize the output to display the file names only with time stamp in custom format with sorted order, use:

$ find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type f -printf "%TY-%Tm-%Td %TH:%TM:%.2TS %f\n" | sort -n 

Here the mindepth and maxdepth parameters were used to use the current directory for the search. That can be modified as per need. And the output will be,

2014-04-22 19:34:36 .bash_logout
2014-04-22 19:34:36 examples.desktop
2014-04-22 19:34:36 .profile
2014-04-22 21:26:24 dropcaches.sh
2014-04-22 22:09:20 .bashrc
2014-05-04 08:41:42 .dmrc

Bulk rename using bash rename command

Rename command with RegEx pattern can be used to do the bulk rename operation. For example, to append the ip address of the machine in between the log files supplied, the below code is used.

#!/bin/bash
ip=$(hostname -I | sed 's/[^0-9.]*//g')
file="_"$ip"."
rename -v "s/(\w+).(\w+)+/\$1$file\$2/" *.log*

The output will like:

shell.log renamed as shell_192.168.1.2.log
shell.log.1 renamed as shell_192.168.1.2.log.1
shell.log.2 renamed as shell_192.168.1.2.log.2
shell.log.zip renamed as shell_192.168.1.2.log.zip