Recently I've built a script to download all my articles from dev.to into markdown files.
I used the timestamp and the name of the article.
This is working, but there is one annoying thing: every post has a date in its file name and its frontmatter.
That leads to:
- Increased complexity: Would have to change the date in both places if I would want to change the date.
- What would be the source of truth in case of two different dates?
Let's tackle this problem
# loop over every file with `md` extension, assign it to `file`
for file in *.md
do
# rename (by variable expansion starting from position 11)
mv "$file" "${file:11}"
done