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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sed to rename files in a folder - please help with script Post 302526716 by ctsgnb on Wednesday 1st of June 2011 08:51:58 AM
Old 06-01-2011
Code:
ksh
j=0
for i in chp*.wav
do
     let j+=1
     echo mv $i ${i%??_*}_bloomy_$(printf "%05d\n" $j).wav
done

Example if i initially have :
Code:
# ls -1 *.wav
chp01_00001.wav
chp01_00002.wav
chp02_00001.wav
chp02_00002.wav

If i run the following commands :
Code:
ksh
j=0
for i in chp*.wav
do
    let j+=1
    echo mv $i ${i%??_*}_bloomy_$(printf "%05d\n" $j).wav
done

Then it displays the followin result :

Code:
mv chp01_00001.wav chp_bloomy_00001.wav
mv chp01_00002.wav chp_bloomy_00002.wav
mv chp02_00001.wav chp_bloomy_00003.wav
mv chp02_00002.wav chp_bloomy_00004.wav

Remove the "echo" after havin checked it does what you need
Last edited by ctsgnb; 06-01-2011 at 01:42 PM..
 

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DESCRIPTION

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OPTIONS

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	      show a brief help and exit.

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