Hi,

I posted this over at Macnn and was redirected here... I'm not a unix programmer at all, but I have some backup if needed. Thanks in advance for any input.

Is there a command for the osX terminal that will list sequentially numbered groups of file as one line instead of individually, while listing other files and directories correctly?

Meaning that a group of files:

image.001.tif
image.002.tif
image.003.tif
image.004.tif
image.005.tif

would be listed as

image.001-005.tif


and a dir with other files and dirs:

image.001.tif
image.002.tif
image.003.tif
image.004.tif
image.005.tif
dir01/
dir02/
imageB.tif

in it would be:

image.001-005.tif
dir01/
dir02/
imageB.tif

?

Wold love to have this...

Thanks,
KM

Surely this can be done better, but it was a quick job

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script
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#!/usr/bin/ksh

for DIR in `find tmp -type d`
do
EXPECT=""
FIRST=""
LAST=""

for FILE in `find ${DIR}/* -prune -type f 2> /dev/null`
do
if [ "${FILE}" != "${EXPECT}" ]
then
if [ "${LAST}" != "" ]
then
if [ "${FIRST}" == "${LAST}" ]
then
echo "${FIRST}"
else
typeset -i LEN
((LEN=`echo ${LAST} | sed -e "s/.*[^0-9]\([0-9][0-9]*\)[^0-9]*$/\1/" | wc -c`-1))
typeset -Z${LEN} NUM NEXTNUM
NUM=`echo ${LAST} | sed -e "s/.*[^0-9]\([0-9][0-9]*\)[^0-9]*$/\1/"`
echo "${FIRST}" | sed -e "s/\([^0-9][^0-9]*\)$/-${NUM}\1/"
fi
fi
FIRST=${FILE}
fi

LAST=${FILE}

echo ${LAST} | grep [0-9] > /dev/null
if [ ${?} -eq 0 ]
then
typeset -i LEN
((LEN=`echo ${LAST} | sed -e "s/.*[^0-9]\([0-9][0-9]*\)[^0-9]*$/\1/" | wc -c`-1))
typeset -Z${LEN} NUM NEXTNUM
NUM=`echo ${LAST} | sed -e "s/.*[^0-9]\([0-9][0-9]*\)[^0-9]*$/\1/"`
((NEXTNUM=${NUM}+1))
EXPECT=`echo ${LAST} | sed -e "s/${NUM}/${NEXTNUM}/"`
fi
done

if [ "${LAST}" != "" ]
then
if [ "${FIRST}" == "${LAST}" ]
then
echo "${FIRST}"
else
typeset -i LEN
((LEN=`echo ${LAST} | sed -e "s/.*[^0-9]\([0-9][0-9]*\)[^0-9]*$/\1/" | wc -c`-1))
typeset -Z${LEN} NUM NEXTNUM
NUM=`echo ${LAST} | sed -e "s/.*[^0-9]\([0-9][0-9]*\)[^0-9]*$/\1/"`
echo "${FIRST}" | sed -e "s/\([^0-9][^0-9]*\)$/-${NUM}\1/"
fi
fi
done

----------------------------------------------------------------
The tree below some directory tmp
----------------------------------------------------------------

tmp:
total 1
-rw-r--r-- 1 user group 0 Jan 24 22:46 afile
drwxr-xr-x 2 user group 256 Jan 24 23:01 dir01
drwxr-xr-x 2 user group 432 Jan 24 23:05 dir02
-rw-r--r-- 1 user group 0 Jan 24 21:29 image.001.tif
-rw-r--r-- 1 user group 0 Jan 24 21:29 image.002.tif
-rw-r--r-- 1 user group 0 Jan 24 21:29 image.003.tif
-rw-r--r-- 1 user group 0 Jan 24 21:29 image.004.tif
-rw-r--r-- 1 user group 0 Jan 24 21:30 image.005.tif
-rw-r--r-- 1 user group 0 Jan 24 22:46 image.008.tif
-rw-r--r-- 1 user group 0 Jan 24 22:46 image.009.tif
-rw-r--r-- 1 user group 0 Jan 24 21:30 imageB.tif
-rw-r--r-- 1 user group 0 Jan 24 22:46 maybeafile
-rw-r--r-- 1 user group 0 Jan 24 22:46 nofile

tmp/dir01:
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 user group 0 Jan 24 22:53 anotherfile
-rw-r--r-- 1 user group 0 Jan 24 22:53 bigfile
-rw-r--r-- 1 user group 0 Jan 24 22:53 emptyfile
-rw-r--r-- 1 user group 0 Jan 24 22:53 file03.aap
-rw-r--r-- 1 user group 0 Jan 24 22:53 file04.aap
-rw-r--r-- 1 user group 0 Jan 24 22:53 file05.aap
-rw-r--r-- 1 user group 0 Jan 24 23:01 x-file

tmp/dir02:
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 user group 0 Jan 24 23:05 anothersingle18.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 user group 0 Jan 24 23:05 closedfile
-rw-r--r-- 1 user group 0 Jan 24 23:05 movie11.div
-rw-r--r-- 1 user group 0 Jan 24 23:05 movie12.div
-rw-r--r-- 1 user group 0 Jan 24 23:05 openfile
-rw-r--r-- 1 user group 0 Jan 24 23:05 pic107.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 user group 0 Jan 24 23:05 pic108.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 user group 0 Jan 24 23:05 pic109.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 user group 0 Jan 24 23:05 pic110.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 user group 0 Jan 24 23:05 pic111.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 user group 0 Jan 24 23:05 singlepoc07.bmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 user group 0 Jan 24 23:05 smallfile

----------------------------------------------------------------
The output
----------------------------------------------------------------

tmp/afile
tmp/image.001-005.tif
tmp/image.008-009.tif
tmp/imageB.tif
tmp/maybeafile
tmp/nofile
tmp/dir01/anotherfile
tmp/dir01/bigfile
tmp/dir01/emptyfile
tmp/dir01/file03-05.aap
tmp/dir01/x-file
tmp/dir02/anothersingle18.jpg
tmp/dir02/closedfile
tmp/dir02/movie11-12.div
tmp/dir02/openfile
tmp/dir02/pic107-111.jpg
tmp/dir02/singlepoc07.bmp
tmp/dir02/smallfile