Change All File Names in a Directory - Page 2

Ygor · #1 (**permalink**) 01-22-2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by andou

I tried this with a test directory of 17 Randomly named files. The result was sh: test: too many arguments 13 times and sh: test: Photo: binary operator expected 2 times. However, 2 of the files came out as expected: FILE002 and FILE003.

Sidenote: This is with .jpg files. I changed "FILE%03i" to "FILE%03i.jpg", so the two files came out: FILE002.jpg and FILE003.jpg. None of the other file names changed.

I think you have spaces in your filenames, which my script didn't handle. It's simple to fix by putting double-quotes around filenames....

Code:

c=0
for i in *.jpg
do 
   test -f "$i" &&\
   mv "$i" $(printf "FILE%03i.jpg" $c) &&\
   ((c+=1))
done

andou · #2 (**permalink**) 01-22-2008

Worked like a charm!~

Thanks Ygor

And thanks everyone for the great replies ^^

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