On Monday 25 August 2003 03:10 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > OK, so this is a tipical download via my smart card reader, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cd /root/sane2 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] sane2]# ls > dsci0001.jpg* dsci0007.jpg* dsci0013.jpg* dsci0019.jpg* > dsci0025.jpg* > dsci0002.jpg* dsci0008.jpg* dsci0014.jpg* dsci0020.jpg* > dsci0026.jpg* > dsci0003.jpg* dsci0009.jpg* dsci0015.jpg* dsci0021.jpg* > dsci0027.jpg* > dsci0004.jpg* dsci0010.jpg* dsci0016.jpg* dsci0022.jpg* > dsci0028.jpg* > dsci0005.jpg* dsci0011.jpg* dsci0017.jpg* dsci0023.jpg* > dsci0006.jpg* dsci0012.jpg* dsci0018.jpg* dsci0024.jpg* > > These are digital camera pix , the product of an event to > which I would like to add a replacement prefix for "dsci" to > reflect the nature of the > event and a date, so in this case I might choose something > lile "bankholiday240803<followed by 0001.jpg> etc. > > Can someone suggest a script to do this for me so I don't have > to manually retype the file name in properties for each file. > It would be nice if I could run the script and it asked me for > a syntax , which would be different in each event , and then > added it in place of the bit > of syntax to be removed. > I think it might be nice if I could just copy the bash script > file to the source directory and run it from there, dunno > though . > > Possible ? > > Also out of pure curiosity why does the file names all end in > " * " ? > > John
Not sure what you want John, but I think *rename* will do the job. It's a little awkward IMHO, but try *man rename*. At least I had some succes with the same problem. HTH Kaj Haulrich -- Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Powered by Linux - Mandrake 9.1 kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdk Sent to you from a 100 % Micro$oft-free computer.
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