On Fri, 5 Feb 2016, hewiak wrote:
> Some file managers have a 'bulk rename' plugin, Thunar (standard for
> XFCE desktop) is one
There's also the rename tool. Read the man page, 'man rename'.
Rich
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Some file managers have a 'bulk rename' plugin, Thunar (standard for
XFCE desktop) is one
On 02/03/2016 03:05 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Feb 2016, John Jason Jordan wrote:
>
>> I frequently have a dozen or so screenshots taken with VLC. The files
>> are in the format like this:
>>
>> vl
On Wed, 3 Feb 2016, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> I frequently have a dozen or so screenshots taken with VLC. The files
> are in the format like this:
>
> vlcsnap-2016-02-03-14h28m24s290
>
> I wish to rename all the files in the folder that start with 'vlcsnap'
> to #, where # is an incremental numbe
Hello John,
Here is one way:
ls | while read file ; do
let inc++ ;
mv ${file} Keyword$((${inc}-1))
done
Naturally, add some sanity checks (e.g. file does not already exist,
handle spaces). You can also add wildcards or pipe into grep to
restrict the file list.
Good luck and let us know how
I frequently have a dozen or so screenshots taken with VLC. The files
are in the format like this:
vlcsnap-2016-02-03-14h28m24s290
I wish to rename all the files in the folder that start with 'vlcsnap'
to #, where # is an incremental number starting with 0
for the first one and incrementing for e
