On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 03:43 -0400, Claude Jones wrote: > Could someone help. I have chosen a bad naming convention for a long list, and > I need to make a small alteration. The list looks like the following > 001-Fig 1-1.jpg > 013-Fig 4-4a.jpg > 024-Fig 5-6.jpg > 035-Fig 5-17.jpg > etc... > I would like to add a 0 to each group of three numbers at the beginning of > each name so that 001-Fig 1-1.jpg becomes 0010-Fig 1--1.jpg for example. > Could someone help me with the quick way to do this? > -- > Claude Jones > Bluemont, VA, USA > Claude, Are you attempting to rename files or edit a list of file names? For the latter, you could use gedit and replace all occurrences "-F" with "0-F". For the former you would need to script it. Something like: for i in *.jpg; do newname=`echo $i | sed s/-/0-/`; mv "$i" "$newname"; done The example file names given will become: 0010-Fig 1-1.jpg 0130-Fig 4-4a.jpg 0240-Fig 5-6.jpg 0350-Fig 5-17.jpg Is that what you are looking to do? Bob...
