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[Aaron Kulkis <akulkis01@xxxxxxxxx>]

Greg Freemyer wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Aaron Kulkis <akulkis01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Greg Freemyer 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.
> >
> >  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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