| License (Code): | CC0 |
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| License (Text): | CC-BY |
| Tags: | RegEx |
When you export emails from Thunderbird, it generates .eml files which have a pretty unusable name for me:
Re: Happy Birthday - Full Name <email@example.com> - YYYY-MM-DD HHMM.eml
The problem with those names are that a lot of those files in a folder are going to be sorted by subject, which does not even work with the Re: in front of some emails.
I renamed all those emails to a more sensible format:
YYYYMMDD-HHMM-Full Name <email@example.com>-Re: Happy Birthday.eml
This rename command does the trick:
rename 's#(.*?)([^/]*) - ([^/]*) - (\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2}) (\d{4})\.eml#$1$4$5$6-$7-$3-$2.eml#'