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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers rename files in a folder Post 302259047 by wempy on Monday 17th of November 2008 05:36:56 AM
Old 11-17-2008
Untested. Assumes that you want to rename the files as found alphabetically in the way that ls will output them.
Code:
NUM=1
ls |while read FN
do
mv $FN $NUM
$(( NUM + 1 ))
done


Last edited by wempy; 11-17-2008 at 06:37 AM.. Reason: corrected syntax
 

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RUNLIM(1)						      General Commands Manual							 RUNLIM(1)

NAME
runlim - a program to run benchmarks SYNOPSIS
runlim [ options ...] command [ arguments ...] DESCRIPTION
run is a tool that can be used to run and control benchmarks. It executes a given command with (optional) arguments, samples resource usage during the run, and kills the process (and its child processes) if a certain time and/or space limit is exhausted. Every 100 milliseconds, runlim takes a sample of the program's resource utilization, and logs status information to stderr every second. Optionally, the status can be logged to a file. Multi-threaded programs can be limited by setting a wall clock timeout. runlim follows the time accumulation scheme of GNU time for multi- threaded programs and programs that spawn multiple child-processes: time spent in each thread/child is summed up, unless you are only interested in walk clock time. OPTIONS
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time(1), timelimit(1), timeout(1), time(7). AUTHOR
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