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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Batch Renaming of Files Post 302386835 by gratefulhokie on Wednesday 13th of January 2010 06:11:38 PM
Old 01-13-2010
Bug Batch Renaming of Files

Hello all, thanks for your time (and this forum, what an awesome resource for newbs like myself!)

Anyways, I've been given the task of importing content from a directory of about...7000 HTML files. They are all named appropriately and broken down by name depending on what book they belong too.

For example, say I have the book "my-book" the files are named:

my-book-pagenumber-1.html
my-book-pagenumber-2.html
my-book-pagenumber-3.html
...etc.

Of course, and you probably saw this coming, a problem arises when you get to those with pages higher than 10. I'm seeing.

my-book-pagenumber-1.html
my-book-pagenumber-10.html
my-book-pagenumber-11.html
my-book-pagenumber-12.html
my-book-pagenumber-2.html
my-book-pagenumber-3.html
...etc.

Is there anyway I can just do a find/replace on the entire directory and specify the criteria? Thats the easiest way I could think of for now...doing something like.

FIND "-pagenumber-1." and REPLACE WITH "-pagenumber-001."
FIND "-pagenumber-2." and REPLACE WITH "-pagenumber-002."
FIND "-pagenumber-11." and REPLACE WITH "-pagenumber-011."

Is this possible out of the gates through a command in Terminal? Or maybe there's a script or program I could download to do this for me?

I really appreciate any of the help! Smilie
 

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bibledit-rdwrt - Read or writes data to or from a Bibledit-Gtk Bible or project DESCRIPTION
Bibledit-rdwrt can read from or write to Bible data. Syntax: bibledit-rdwrt -r|-w project book chapter|0 fileName Breaking the syntax down we have: First parameter: -r|-w This can be either -r or -w which determines whether the remaining arguments are going to do a "read" operation from the specified Bibledit-Gtk Bible / project, or do a "write" operation to that Bible / project. Second parameter: project This gives the name of the Bibledit-Gtk Bible / project. All we have to do is ensure that the project name we want to access is a valid/existing one. Third parameter: book This is simply the 3-letter book code for the Bible book that is being read/written to. I.e., MAT for Matthew, GEN for Genesis, etc. Fourth parameter: chapter|0 This can be either a chapter number or 0 (zero) for reading/writing either an individual chapter or read- ing/writing a whole book (when the parameter is 0). Fifth parameter: fileName This is a temporary file name that we assign for our use with bibledit-rdwrt. For a read (-r) operation this fileName argument is the name of the file that will be created by bibledit-rdwrt containing a copy of the whole book (corresponding to the 3-letter code), or that contains the individual chapter contents (of a designated chapter) of an existing Bibledit-Gtk book file in the Bible / project. It should be prefixed with a path us. Since bibledit-rdwrt is a console operation, after AdaptIt calls it using ::wxExe- cute, it would need to read the resulting temporary file to grab the contents for its use. For a write (-w) operation this fileName argu- ment is the name of the temporary file that bibledit-rdwrt reads to get the text which it then writes to the appropriate Bible / project file. The temporary file can contain the text of a whole book, or just the text of a single chapter for the book specified by the book 3-letter code and the chapter (number) argument. bibledit-rdwrt may exit with 0 on success, or -1 on failure, as it sees fit. It may write to stdout or stderr, as it sees fit. LICENSE
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