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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting changing filenames in a directory to a number within a loop Post 302150858 by visitorQ on Wednesday 12th of December 2007 11:09:06 PM
Old 12-13-2007
thanks for the link porter. but i'm still having trouble with my script:

Code:
kumi@throne:atlas/images/photos % ls -l
total 8148
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    133 2007-12-12 22:06 gallery*
-rw-r--r-- 1 kumi kumi 739930 2007-10-30 01:09 Luis Work 001.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 kumi kumi 760898 2007-10-30 01:10 Luis Work 010.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 kumi kumi 778884 2007-10-30 01:10 Luis Work 016.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 kumi kumi 826150 2007-10-30 01:10 Luis Work 017.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 kumi kumi 790932 2007-10-30 01:10 Luis Work 018.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 kumi kumi 687920 2007-10-30 01:10 Luis Work 028.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 kumi kumi 731860 2007-10-30 01:10 Luis Work 029.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 kumi kumi 868742 2007-10-30 01:10 Luis Work 030.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 kumi kumi 853904 2007-10-30 01:10 Luis Work 042.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 kumi kumi 725632 2007-10-30 01:10 Luis Work 070.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 kumi kumi 500695 2007-10-30 01:10 Pic 1.jpg
drwxr-xr-x 2 kumi kumi   4096 2007-12-12 22:06 untitled folder/
kumi@throne:atlas/images/photos % ./gallery 
mv: target `1.jpg' is not a directory
mv: target `2.jpg' is not a directory
mv: target `3.jpg' is not a directory
mv: target `4.jpg' is not a directory
mv: target `5.jpg' is not a directory
mv: target `6.jpg' is not a directory
mv: target `7.jpg' is not a directory
mv: target `8.jpg' is not a directory
mv: target `9.jpg' is not a directory
mv: target `10.jpg' is not a directory
mv: target `11.jpg' is not a directory

here's the script:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
filetype="jpg"
list=( *.$filetype )
for (( i = 0 ; i < ${#list[*]} ; )) ; do
    mv ${list[$i]} $((++i)).$filetype
done

any help?
 

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directoryiterator.getctime

DIRECTORYITERATOR.GETCTIME(3)						 1					     DIRECTORYITERATOR.GETCTIME(3)

DirectoryIterator::getCTime - Get inode change time of the current DirectoryIterator item

SYNOPSIS

       public int DirectoryIterator::getCTime (void  )

DESCRIPTION

	Get the inode change time for the current DirectoryIterator item.

PARAMETERS

       This function has no parameters.

RETURN VALUES

	Returns the last change time of the file, as a Unix timestamp.

EXAMPLES

       Example #1

	      DirectoryIterator.getCTime(3) example

	       This example displays the file name and last change time of the files in the directory containing the script.

	      <?php
	      $iterator = new DirectoryIterator(dirname(__FILE__));
	      foreach ($iterator as $fileinfo) {
		  if ($fileinfo->isFile()) {
		      echo $fileinfo->getFilename() . " changed at " . $fileinfo->getCTime() . "
";
		  }
	      }
	      ?>

	      The above example will output something similar to:

	      apple.jpg changed at 1240398312
	      banana.jpg changed at 1238605440
	      index.php changed at 1240398935
	      pear.jpg changed at 1237423740

SEE ALSO

       DirectoryIterator::getATime, DirectoryIterator::getMTime, filectime(3).

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