Philip S Tellis wrote:
>
> but you want to rename
> s*.abc to s*.sNN
>
> so, try this:
>
> n=0; for i in *.abc do n=$(($n+1)); mv $i ${i%abc}${${i%${i#?}}$n; done
>
Sorry Philip, your script gave "syntax error near token 'mv' " error
message.
What's problem ?
> this is not perfect - you'll get extensions like .s1 - .s9, then .s10 -
> .s99 and then .s100 ->
>
Hmm... It will be disastrous. These files will be shared in DOS, so should
follow the rule - 8.3 filename format.
Also I do'nt know what will happen, if there are more than 100/200 files in
a directory. May-be something like sand.s99.. , sando.01s.., sandon.99s...,
and lastly sandox.0s1..., sandoz.9s9. And after that a new directory .
They are maintaining separate file for each customer of their all-india
clients. I have already seen some 160 files of the same alphabet in a
directory.
Thanks !
~ Pat
> so, if you want better extensions, put the n=$(($n+1)) inside a
> condition to decide what it should be.
>
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