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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting changing filenames in a directory to a number within a loop Post 302151063 by vgersh99 on Thursday 13th of December 2007 01:55:15 PM
Old 12-13-2007
well..... here's the same script with the 'echo'.
first run:
Code:
mv Luis Work 001.jpg 1.jpg
mv Luis Work 008.jpg 2.jpg
mv Luis Work 009.jpg 3.jpg
mv Luis Work 010.jpg 4.jpg
mv Luis Work 016.jpg 5.jpg
mv Luis Work 017.jpg 6.jpg
mv Luis Work 018.jpg 7.jpg
mv Luis Work 028.jpg 8.jpg
mv Luis Work 029.jpg 9.jpg
mv Luis Work 030.jpg 10.jpg
mv Luis Work 042.jpg 11.jpg
mv Luis Work 043.jpg 12.jpg
mv Luis Work 044.jpg 13.jpg
mv Luis Work 045.jpg 14.jpg
mv Luis Work 046.jpg 15.jpg
mv Luis Work 055.jpg 16.jpg
mv Luis Work 068.jpg 17.jpg
mv Luis Work 069.jpg 18.jpg
mv Luis Work 070.jpg 19.jpg

here's the second run:
Code:
mv 1.jpg 1.jpg
mv 10.jpg 2.jpg
mv 11.jpg 3.jpg
mv 12.jpg 4.jpg
mv 13.jpg 5.jpg
mv 14.jpg 6.jpg
mv 15.jpg 7.jpg
mv 16.jpg 8.jpg
mv 17.jpg 9.jpg
mv 18.jpg 10.jpg
mv 19.jpg 11.jpg
mv 2.jpg 12.jpg
mv 3.jpg 13.jpg
mv 4.jpg 14.jpg
mv 5.jpg 15.jpg
mv 6.jpg 16.jpg
mv 7.jpg 17.jpg
mv 8.jpg 18.jpg
mv 9.jpg 19.jpg

as you can see some of the files get overwritten..

you can modify sort - to sort numerically this will keep the files - not sure it'll fix all that you want, but.....
Code:
sort -n


Last edited by vgersh99; 12-13-2007 at 02:59 PM.. Reason: added 'sort -n' comment
 

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continue(1T)						       Tcl Built-In Commands						      continue(1T)

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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(1T), for(1T), foreach(1T), return(1T), while(1T) KEYWORDS
continue, iteration, loop ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +--------------------+-----------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +--------------------+-----------------+ |Availability | SUNWTcl | +--------------------+-----------------+ |Interface Stability | Uncommitted | +--------------------+-----------------+ NOTES
Source for Tcl is available on http://opensolaris.org. Tcl continue(1T)
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