Need script to rename files

joe_stevensen · 10-06-2003, 01:05 PM

I have a bunch of randomly name .jpg files and wish to rename them all to:

hawaii001.jpg
hawaii002.jpg
hawaii003.jpg
hawaii004.jpg
..etc..

I don't care what order the files get renamed.
I have searched all over and tried to do it myself to no avail.
All the files will be *.jpg in a single folder.
Thanks.

kev82 · 10-06-2003, 01:36 PM

how about something like this (not tested btw)

COUNTER=0; for i in `ls | grep 'jpg$'`; do mv $i $COUNTER.jpg; COUNTER=$(($COUNTER + 1)); done

joe_stevensen · 10-06-2003, 01:43 PM

that worked great.
thanks.

david_ross · 10-06-2003, 01:44 PM

What about:

Code:

#!/bin/bash

# Config
dir="/home/joe/pics/hawaii/"         # Full path including trailing slash
prefix="hawaii"                      # Filename prefix
suffix=".jpg"                        # Filename suffix


# Script
num=1
for file in `ls $dir`;do
mv $dir$file $dir$prefix$num$suffix
num=$(($num+1))
done

/bin/bash · 10-06-2003, 08:17 PM

man rename

Code:

SYNOPSIS
       rename from to file...

DESCRIPTION
       rename  will  rename  the specified files by replacing the first occur-
       rence of from in their name by to.

       For example, given the files foo1, ..., foo9, foo10, ...,  foo278,  the
       commands

              rename foo foo0 foo?
              rename foo foo0 foo??

       will turn them into foo001, ..., foo009, foo010, ..., foo278.

       And
              rename .htm .html *.htm

       will fix the extension of your html files.

SEE ALSO
       mv(1)

xscd · 12-05-2003, 06:12 PM

You could also check out mvb, a shell script to quickly rename many files in the current working directory, great for digital camera users or those who download images from the Internet. Changes generic or bad filenames to better ones.

mvb at icewalkers.com:
http://www.icewalkers.com/Linux/Soft...20460/mvb.html