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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Rename first N numeric strings in filename Post 303033749 by RudiC on Thursday 11th of April 2019 07:10:47 AM
Old 04-11-2019
If you want to replace the leading digits no matter how many by exactly 5 random digits, i.e. 10000 - 99999, try (bash)

Code:
for FN in *.mp4; do echo mv "$FN" "$((10000 + 90000 * RANDOM / 32767))${FN#${FN%%[[:alpha:]]*}}"; done

 

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PYTONECTL(1)						      General Commands Manual						      PYTONECTL(1)

NAME
pytonectl - remote control for pytone SYNOPSIS
pytonectl [option] command DESCRIPTION
pytonectl is a commandline remote control for a running PyTone instance. It communicates via Unix Sockets or TCP/IP with the running PyTone. OPTIONS
-h, --help shows this help -s, --server <hostname> connects to PyTone instance on <hostname> -p, --port <port> connect to PyTone Server on given <port> -f, --file <file> connect to PyTone UNIX socket <file> COMMANDS
getplayerinfo show information on the song currently being played playerforward play the next song in the playlist playerpause pause the player playerstart start/unpause the player playertogglepause pause the player, if playing, or play, if paused playerstop stop the player playerratecurrentsong <rating> rate the song currently being played (1<=rating<=5) playlistaddsongs <filenames> add files to end of playlist playlistaddsongtop <filename> play file immediately playlistclear clear the playlist playlistdeleteplayedsongs remove all played songs from the playlist playlistreplay mark all songs in the playlist as unplayed playlistshuffle shuffle the playlist SEE ALSO
The full documentation for PyTone AUTHOR
PyTone was written by Jorg Lehmann <joerg@luga.de>. This manpage was written by Alexander Wirt <formorer@debian.org> for the Debian Distri- bution. pytone 2.0.7 Jan 2004 PYTONECTL(1)
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