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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting changing filenames in a directory to a number within a loop Post 302151048 by vgersh99 on Thursday 13th of December 2007 01:03:02 PM
Old 12-13-2007
Strange - you're the first person I know that goes from perl/Python/Ruby to shell scripting....
But anyhoo....
you're almost there...
Code:
#!/bin/bash
typeset -i i=1

ls -1 *.$1 | sort | while IFS= read fname ; do
     echo "mv [$fname] [{i}.${1}]"
    #mv "$fname" "${i}.${1}"
    ((i++))
done

when you're satisfied with what 'echo' outputs, comment it out, and uncomment the actual 'mv' line.
Last edited by vgersh99; 12-13-2007 at 02:08 PM..
 

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