I originally asked for help via the internettablettalk.com forums and within two hours a member called jethro.itt had not only answered but completely finished a solution.

Now that I had a look through the script I am writing it up here in case anyone else wants to know how it works.

The Problem

The Nokia supplied Camera application for the N800 take snaps but the filenames are strangely formatted which makes finding and storing them differcult.

For example a photo taken on taken on 25th February 2008 at 18:03:43 would be named 43_03_18-250208.jpg.

I needed someone to help me with the transposing of the numbers into sane system so that the above named file would be called 20080225_180343.jpg , the directory listing would then be sorted automatically into date order.

The Solution

Here is jethro.itt's script :-

#!/bin/sh
# camrename.sh - Renames Nokia Camera application pictures
# v0.01 2008-02-26 by Jussi Yl

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