Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu (& Debian & Linux) rule

[Eugene Smiley <eug+plug@esmiley.net>]

Matthew Rosewarne wrote:
> > Oh yeah, then I had to rename 100+ files.  On Windows I'd use Excel to
> > write a batch file to do it (unless the data was saved on my Samba
> > server, which it usually is).  On Linux, this trivially did the trick:
> > 	$ for i in ?.MPG;  do mv $i "00$i"; done
> > 	$ for i in ??.MPG; do mv $i "0$i"; done
>
> You might want to check out mmv, renameutls, and/or krename.

And i know that this is stretching the scope of the list a bit, but for Windows 
there is a Free utility called Renamer that gives you all kind of renaming 
options. I use it since I've taken 18,000 pictures with my camera, but Nikon 
only numbers up to 9999. To keep from duplicating filenames, I run Renamer to 
insert a 1 in the 5th position. Soon it'll become a 2.
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