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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# resets blog articles file date to the date indicated
+# in the article
+postDir=/home/philip/web/articles/2025
+
+mapfile -t postArray < <(ls -t "$postDir"/*.html)
+for posts in "${postArray[@]}"; do
+  post="$posts"
+  postdate=$(grep -o '>.*</h5>' "$post" | sed 's/\(>\|<\/h5>\)//g')
+  echo "$postdate"
+  #[[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.ss]
+  postdate="${postdate//-}0000"
+  echo Date="$postdate"  
+  echo Item="$post"
+  touch -a -m -t "$postdate" "$post"
+done