small programming question
John Summerfied
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Mon May 23 13:38:40 UTC 2005
Bob Chiodini wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 03:43 -0400, Claude Jones wrote:
>
>>Could someone help. I have chosen a bad naming convention for a long list, and
>>I need to make a small alteration. The list looks like the following
>>001-Fig 1-1.jpg
>>013-Fig 4-4a.jpg
>>024-Fig 5-6.jpg
>>035-Fig 5-17.jpg
>>etc...
>>I would like to add a 0 to each group of three numbers at the beginning of
>>each name so that 001-Fig 1-1.jpg becomes 0010-Fig 1--1.jpg for example.
>>Could someone help me with the quick way to do this?
>>--
>>Claude Jones
>>Bluemont, VA, USA
>>
>
> Claude,
>
> Are you attempting to rename files or edit a list of file names?
>
> For the latter, you could use gedit and replace all occurrences "-F"
> with "0-F".
>
> For the former you would need to script it. Something like:
>
> for i in *.jpg; do newname=`echo $i | sed s/-/0-/`; mv "$i" "$newname"; done
>
I'd move them to a work directory, Just In Case:
mkdir work
for f in *jpg
do mv $f work/0$f
done
# If okay:
mv work/* .
rmdir work
--
Cheers
John
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