one liner: look at the rename command: rename 0 00 0*.jpg On 5/23/05, Jeff Kinz <jkinz@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 03:43:53AM -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? > > > Hi Claude. > I see you've received some solutions on this so I won't add to them, but > I do want to correct your terminology. > > This isn't a programming question. Its a scripting question. > > > > > -- > Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
