Ken wrote:
>
> I need some help renaming a bunch of files, about 350 in fact. They all
> begin with vacation*.jpg
>
> example:
>
> vacation01.jpg
> vacation02.jpg
> vacation03.jpg
>
> I want to rename just the vacation part to toronto**.jpg. toronto01.jpg,
> toronto02.jpg etc...
>
> What would I type to accomplishing this? Typing 'mv vacation01.jpg >
> toronto01.jpg' for each file isn't fun either. My only other alternative
> is using a windows renaming program to rename them and upload them again.
> It's on my remote server and I'd just like to rename them on the server so
> I don't have to re-upload them.
I'm not sure if a utility exists but it's pretty simple enough to write a small
bash or perl script to do it. I highly recommend reading up on shell (eg. bash -
the default shell in Mandrake) scripting. It'll save you untold riches worth of
time and grief. ;-)
Especially if you do this sort of thing a lot.
Hint: Always, always, always! Have a scratch directory to do your testing - esp.
when you have valuable/irreplacable data that could get hosed by a still-buggy
script.
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