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# 8  
Old 10-20-2015
Not sure as this seems to be for DOS - is the %d a format string that could be replaced by e.g. %04d (as opposed to %x which is a loop variable)?
# 9  
Old 10-20-2015
With the shell in busybox you should be able to do something like:
Code:
cnt=1
for x in *.gif
do      base="${x%.gif}"
        echo mv "$x" "$(printf '%s_%04d.gif' "$base" $cnt)"
        cnt=$((cnt + 1))
done

If that shows you a set of mv commands that do what you need to do, remove the echo and run it again to actually rename the files.
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# 10  
Old 10-20-2015
Thanks!

Busybox seems to be rather useful Smilie.
# 11  
Old 10-26-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
Not sure as this seems to be for DOS - is the %d a format string that could be replaced by e.g. %04d (as opposed to %x which is a loop variable)?
He could likely feed that to imagemagick next time to get files with leading zeroes from the get-go.
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