On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 6:53 PM, 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.

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 Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Monday 03 March 2008 16:53, Greg Freemyer wrote:

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.

Greg, I think krename can do most of this (if you don't mind a GUI). You can specify a prefix "AAA_", set a custom file name of "" and include a sequence of four (or more) digits starting where you like for the renamed file. I'm just not clear how the "xxxx" for each file is determined, if it is simply based on the numerical order of nnn_mmm_lll or something more sophisticted. krename can sort on numerical order for the input files, so that may serve your purpose. HTH. -- Don -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org