On 10/31/05, Todd Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/30/05, Carl Lowenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] try]$ cat foo5 > > #!/bin/bash > > n=0 > > ls *.txt | while read old > > do ((n+=1)) > > echo $old $(printf 'document-%04d.txt' $n) > > done > > Yes, but, this isn't very flexible. It would take rewriting to take > arguments for the files, and I want to arbitrarily specify what kind > of sequence to use for the numbering, and I'd like to be able to reuse > the existing file name if desired. You (or I) could do this > rewriting, but the point is to avoid having to do so. The point is to > hopefully find a moderately featured tool that already knows all this > nifty stuff and maybe even more that I didn't know I wanted in the > first place.
i agree. leave it on one line, and retrieve it for reuse with repeated ctrl-r also, it is more readable with new=... (for me anyway) since it splits the two tasks (construct a name; do the move). -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
