On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 03:10:45PM +0000, 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* <snip> > 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 ?
My getpix script will do this--you're welcome to take a look at it and see how I did the renaming scheme, which is basically called like "getpix -n bankholiday" which would give you "bankholiday-001.jpg" http://clevername.homeip.net/scripts/ Assuming you're mounting your smartcard reader, you can use the entire script as-is, just change the variables to suit your needs. > Also out of pure curiosity why does the file names all end in " * " ? I believe it means they are executable. Todd
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