Todd's Tiny Tools — Date Prefixer

A tiny CLI tool to parse dates from filenames and prefix in a sortable format.

Installation

Not yet published to npm. Clone this directory and run the following to test:

npm install
npm link

How it works

This tool walks the directory and it's subfolders from where the tool is run. Each filename is parsed and dates are prefixed. Files who already start with 4 digits (simplistic assumption of year-first formatting) are skipped.

Date formats parsed

• MMM DD YYYY, i.e. Jan 13 2020
• MMMM DD YYYY, i.e. Sept 3 2019
• YYYY-MM-DD, i.e. 2020-02-14

Prefixed format

Date strings are reformatted to YYYY-MM-DD format for simple chronological sorting.