Hi,

If I have a directory full of say 100 random files, and I would like to organize them, for example: FILE001, FILE002, FILE003, FILE004, etc.

How would I do this from Terminal, instead of manually changing each file? I'm using Mac OS X, if that makes a difference.

Thank you in advance for any help

Try...

Try this

[code ]
#!/bin/bash
dir="path name"
i=0
for filename in `ls -1t $dir/`
do
i=`expr $i + 1`
mv $dir/$filename $dir/ex$i
done

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say you have files like below...
jordba.package1
jordba.package2
jordba.package3

use the below:
for f in jordba.*; do mv "$f" "${f#jordba.}"; done

the above for loop will make your list like...

package1
package2
package3

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but there is another issue similar to the before that i have the files

x1_p.sql
x2_p.sql
x3_p.sql

and so on

i need to add h before .sql to be as the following:

x1_ph.sql
x2_ph.sql
x3_ph.sql


====================================

This should work for the data given by you above...

for f in *_p.sql ; do mv "$f" "${f%_p.sql}_ph.sql"; done


I hope these r helpful

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'm not sure what to do with filename. I tried *.jpg and "*.jpg" and end up with: `*.jpg': not a valid identifier and `"*.jpg"': not a valid identifier, respectively.

This works for me for renaming files that are already ordered 1, 2, 3, etc.

However, I want to take randomly named files, such as qwerty.jpg, blah.jpg 123_lol.jpg, and rename them to be ordered sequentially, such as: 2007NOV03001.jpg, 2007NOV03002.jpg, 2007NOV03003.jpg, etc.