On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 10:55:45AM -0800, Todd Walton wrote:
>Without personally writing a whole script to handle it, how can I
>intelligently rename masses of files? In ACDSee, an image viewing
>program for Windows, they had this cool feature where you could select
>a bunch of files and then hit F2 (rename) and it would let you plug in
>a reverse regular expression of sorts. Like, if I have a bunch of
>files named bob.txt, cracker.txt, 92.s.txt, jjjjj.text, and so on, I
>could rename them to "document-##.txt". Then bob.txt would become
>document-01.txt, cracker.txt would become document-02.txt and so on.
>It handled incrementing the number to be applied. There was also
>provision for reusing the already existing name in the new name. So
>on.
>
>Where can I get something like that?
try man rename,
rename [ -v ] perlexpr [ files ]
it's probably installed.
// George
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