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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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AA-NOTIFY(8)							     AppArmor							      AA-NOTIFY(8)

NAME
aa-notify - display information about logged AppArmor messages. SYNOPSIS
aa-notify [option] DESCRIPTION
aa-notify will display a summary or provide desktop notifications for AppArmor DENIED messages. OPTIONS
aa-notify accepts the following arguments: -p, --poll poll AppArmor logs and display desktop notifications. Can be used with '-s' option to display a summary on startup. -f FILE, --file=FILE search FILE for AppArmor messages -l, --since-last show summary since last login. -s NUM, --since-days=NUM show summary for last NUM of days. -u USER, --user=USER user to drop privileges to when running privileged. When used with the -p option, this should be set to the user that will receive desktop notifications. This has no effect when running under sudo. -w NUM, --wait=NUM wait NUM seconds before displaying notifications (for use with -p) -v, --verbose show messages with summaries. -h, --help displays a short usage statement. CONFIGURATION
System-wide configuration for aa-notify is done via /etc/apparmor/notify.conf: # set to 'yes' to enable AppArmor DENIED notifications show_notifications="yes" # only people in use_group can use aa-notify use_group="admin" Per-user configuration is done via ~/.apparmor/notify.conf: # set to 'yes' to enable AppArmor DENIED notifications show_notifications="yes" BUGS
aa-notify needs to be able to read the logfiles containing the AppArmor DENIED messages. If you find any additional bugs, please report them to Launchpad at <https://bugs.launchpad.net/apparmor/+filebug>. SEE ALSO
apparmor(7) AppArmor 2.7.103 2012-06-28 AA-NOTIFY(8)
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