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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting changing filenames in a directory to a number within a loop Post 302151037 by visitorQ on Thursday 13th of December 2007 12:18:10 PM

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while i appreciate the effort vgersh, i haven't learned much this entire thread. this began as a simple script, but now i can see how it is much more difficult. why wouldn't i just write it in perl or python?

here's what your script returned

Code:

kumi@throne:atlas/images/photos % ./gallery
Error: no "print" mailcap rules found for type "image/jpeg"
Error: no "print" mailcap rules found for type "image/jpeg"
Error: no "print" mailcap rules found for type "image/jpeg"
Error: no "print" mailcap rules found for type "image/jpeg"
Error: no "print" mailcap rules found for type "image/jpeg"
Error: no "print" mailcap rules found for type "image/jpeg"
Error: no "print" mailcap rules found for type "image/jpeg"
Error: no "print" mailcap rules found for type "image/jpeg"
Error: no "print" mailcap rules found for type "image/jpeg"
Error: no "print" mailcap rules found for type "image/jpeg"
Error: no "print" mailcap rules found for type "image/jpeg"
Error: no "print" mailcap rules found for type "image/jpeg"
Error: no "print" mailcap rules found for type "image/jpeg"
Error: no "print" mailcap rules found for type "image/jpeg"
Error: no "print" mailcap rules found for type "image/jpeg"
Error: no "print" mailcap rules found for type "image/jpeg"
Error: no "print" mailcap rules found for type "image/jpeg"
Error: no "print" mailcap rules found for type "image/jpeg"
Error: no "print" mailcap rules found for type "image/jpeg"

still, no one has explained WHY things are not working, they just throw me scripts that they haven't tried themselves. and i'm back at square one. what kind of forum is this?

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continue

continue(3tcl)						       Tcl Built-In Commands						    continue(3tcl)

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

NAME

       continue - Skip to the next iteration of a loop

SYNOPSIS

       continue
_________________________________________________________________

DESCRIPTION

       This  command  is  typically invoked inside the body of a looping command such as for or foreach or while.  It returns a TCL_CONTINUE code,
       which causes a continue exception to occur.  The exception causes the current script to be aborted out to  the  innermost  containing  loop
       command,  which	then  continues with the next iteration of the loop.  Catch exceptions are also handled in a few other situations, such as
       the catch command and the outermost scripts of procedure bodies.

EXAMPLE

       Print a line for each of the integers from 0 to 10 except 5:
	      for {set x 0} {$x<10} {incr x} {
		 if {$x == 5} {
		    continue
		 }
		 puts "x is $x"
	      }

SEE ALSO

       break(3tcl), for(3tcl), foreach(3tcl), return(3tcl), while(3tcl)

KEYWORDS

       continue, iteration, loop

Tcl																    continue(3tcl)

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