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AGazzaz

10-01-2006 07:40 AM

How to remane a number of files?

Hello,
I want to rename some files so they are
agazzaz_1
agazzaz_2
agazzaz_3
and so on

how can this be done?

Andrew Benton

10-01-2006 08:50 AM

Code:

x=1

for i in $(echo a_file another_file something_else)

do mv $i agazzaz_$((x++))

done

Change `a_file another_file something_else' for the actual names of the files you want to move

trickykid

10-01-2006 09:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Andrew Benton

Code:

x=1

for i in $(echo a_file another_file something_else)

do mv $i agazzaz_$((x++))

done

Change `a_file another_file something_else' for the actual names of the files you want to move

And if it's a huge number of files, get the list of files in their own file and you can do something like..

for i in `cat list-of-files`
do
mv $i agazzaz_$((x++))
done

AGazzaz

10-01-2006 11:52 AM

thank you for your replies

but i did not even understand what to do so i googled a little bit and i found

http://filerenameutils.sourceforge.net/

so what do you think

ps. i have not used it yet

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