H.S. wrote: > Hello, > > This may be a little odd question. Can any of the file browsers > (konqueror, nautilus) let a user reorder the files in a folder by > dragging them to a certain position and then to rename the ordered files > automatically with a file pattern? > > This problem arose because I have a few hundred of images which are > jumbled up in time order. I have seen a friend do something similar in > XP's Windows Explorer. I am hoping it can be done in Linux too in some > way: order the image files by dragging them to their position in the > file browser and to run a script on the newly ordered files to rename > them numerically in that order. > > thanks, > ->HS
Dont use GUI for this sort of thing. Write a shell script which contains all the necessary commands for performing the task. To get list of files, use vim. You probably need to use commands such as :!ls -rt *jpg inside vim. Once the list is generated in your desired order, then generate the list of new file names. changing file2.txt file3.txt file1.txt to 001_file2.txt 002_file3.txt 003_file1.txt is pretty trivial in vim if you know about registers etc., I know I am not giving you complete answers, but those pointers should help you to get started. hth raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]