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[Aaron Kulkis <akulkis01@xxxxxxxxx>]

Greg Freemyer wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > All,
> >
> >  I have a directory with several hundred files in it.  All in
> >  alphabetical order the way I need them.
> >
> >  I need to rename them to be in a totally different sequence.
> >
> >  ie.
> >  Currently nnn_mmm_lll.tif
> >
> >  Need to rename AAA_xxxx.tif   where AAA is fixed, and xxxx is sequence
> >  I can specify the starting point for.
> >
> >  I'm about to write a shell script to do this, but would be nice to
> >  have a pre-existing tool I could call on.  mmv is close I think, but I
> >  don't know how to do the sequence number with it.
> >
> >  Thanks
> >  Greg
>
> Still hoping for a better solution, but here is the bash script I came
> up with as a starting point.  It works for this one time.  I'll tweak
> it more if I have to reuse it.
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> SOURCE=orig
> DEST=renamed
>
> START=2076
> PREFIX=KGI-00
> SUFFIX=.tif
>
> mkdir $DEST
>
> ls $SOURCE > source-list
>
> while read source ; do
> echo cp $source $DEST/$PREFIX$START$SUFFIX
> cp "$source.tif" $DEST/$PREFIX$START$SUFFIX
> START=`expr $START + 1`;
> done < source-list

personally, i would pipe ls into xargs, and one each
file, form the destination name by running each file's
name through a sed script.

A little harder to do at first, but more reliable in
the long run

> Greg

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