I have a crontab script that pulls map files (a PNG) from an online game once a day, and stores them in a folder named after the date. Games are numbered from 33 to 70, in this way I can have a time stamp on the state of each game every day.
I've been collecting this for several months, and would like to turn these collections of pictures into movies to post on the forums, so that people can see how each game has flowed over time. On my own I've figured out how to write a script to make a new folder for each game, then copy map files for each day into it's respective folder, renaming them to the date they were taken. I was planning on using mencoder to try to make them into a movie, but the mencoder documentation says the pictures need to be in numerical order. I altered the script to rename it this way by using cp $sourcefile /$game/day$i.png, where $i is incremented, resulting in the files being called day1.png, day2.png, day3.png, etc. I was wondering if there was a way to do this so that it would instead call them day001.png, day002.png, day003.png, etc? I don't know yet if mencoder is going to count "1, 10, 11, 12, ... , 19, 2, 20, 21, ..." or not, but I know that sometimes it's useful to have things spaced out this way and I'd like to know how to do it, just haven't found anything that tells me how to do it in bash yet. Any suggestions? -- John D. Mort http://john.mort.net _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Dec 5 - Open Source Show and Tell Jan 2 - TBD Feb 6 - DBUS Mar 5 - Setting up a platform-independent home/small office network using Linux
