> >
> > > 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 .
> > >
Here's a script modified from linux magazine dec 02/jan 03. Which will
rename files.
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#!/bin/sh
for photo in *jpg;
do
mv $photo `echo $photo | sed 's/dsci/bankholiday/'`
done
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Run it in the directory where the files are. You can modify to take
arguments ($1 $2 etc). test it first ;-)
Roland
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