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On Thu, 27 Oct 2016 18:18:36 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: |
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> > I know it is a smart-arse answer, but it's better for sore eyes |
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> > if you rename your files to unique-width numbers. |
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> > $ for f in image* ; do mv $f image_`printf %03d ${f##image}` ; done |
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> > This works for zsh and may need slight changes for bash. |
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> That's what I ended up doing, a job for a very rainy today. |
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> I did it with 'rename', which is fairly powerful, |
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> but dangerous if you don't concentrate, as it will overwrite files. |
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Have a look at renamexm from sys-apps/rename (it's actually called rename |
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but for Gentoo is was renamed to avoid a collision). It has a lot more |
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options than rename and defaults to prompting you if you try to rename to |
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an existing file. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting |
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different results." (Albert Einstein) |
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