try the unix tool mmv.
jan
On Aug 7, 2008, at 1:40 AM, yanming Zhang wrote:
All UNIX gurus,
I need to change 300 image file names sequentially, such as:
XXX_10001.img to XXX_101.img
XXX_10002.img to XXX_102.img
................
Obviously, using UNIX 'mv' to work on 300 files is stupid. Anyone
can give me a very simple UNIX shell file to finish the job
quickly? Thank you!
Yanming
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