Greg Freemyer wrote:

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Aaron Kulkis wrote:

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Greg Freemyer wrote:

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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.

Instead of using mv or mmv, I would us ln -s

Otherwise, you might be wishing you still had the original names.

mmv with the -c option makes copies.

Copy = 2x disk space storage...and modifications only being done to one or the other. Linking means 1 disk block (or in some filesystems, part of a block) additional disk space for the link

And you can go from a source dir to a dest dir.

You can do the same thing with ln -s For example, I keep all of my plugins for web browsers in one directory: /opt/browser.plugins cd /opt/seamonkey1.1.8/plugins for f in /opt/browser.plugins/* do ln -s $f . done I do similar things for opera and konqueror.

That's how I normally do it.

Anyway, I have a working bash script now. I guess I can post it to the list if there is not a simpler solution.

Greg

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