Re: small programming question

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John Summerfied wrote:
Bob Chiodini wrote:

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
That would work, but is slightly overcomplicated

for i in *.jpg; do newname=`echo $i | sed s/-/0-/`; mv $i 0$i; done

would work just as well (although i am quite fond of a spurious sed or two)

Incidentally, although you already have several really good answers to your question, if the files all start with the same character
you could use the oft-ignored 'rename' command


rename 0 00 *.jpg

would replace the *first* 0 in each filename with 00

Stuart



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