Take a look at the filter command with wild cards instead of regEx Very speedy, and easy to do progressive 'nibbles' + counting
On 2/3/07 10:46 AM, "David Glasgow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am looking for a quick and dirty method for walking a directory and > finding files that have been renamed by the user. I don't need to find > them all, just as many as possible. The folders are likely to > originally contain matching stems and progressive numbers pjf017.jpg, > pjf018 .jpg, pfj019 .jpg etc. etc, with the user renamed files standing > out completely arbitrarily by not following the pattern . > > At the moment I do this using the eyeball test, which is remarkably > quick and efficient but very very very boring because there are often > thousands of files to scan. One approach I thought of is to > progressively filter the folders' contents by nibbling a character off > the end of the first filename. If it is completely unique (and > possibly therefore renamed), nothing will happen. However if 9 other > files disappear, it was a name representative of progressive pattern. > Nibble another character, and so on until it is gone, and any filenames > left over didn't fit the dominant pattern in the folder. Yes? No? . > Any other suggestions? > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
