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# 1  
Old 01-29-2013
Incremental numbering?
Would it be possible for a script to duplicate a file and incrementally number it?

File in: XXX_007_0580_xxxx_v0016.aep
File out: XXX_007_0580_xxxx_v0017.aep

If someone knows of a way I'd love to see it.

Thanks!
# 2  
Old 01-29-2013
Is it always _v####?

Code:
mute@clt:~/temp/scribling$ ./script
cp XXX_007_0580_xxxx_v0016.aep new/XXX_007_0580_xxxx_0017.aep

Code:
#!/bin/sh

for file in *.aep; do
        ext=${file##*.}
        base=${file%.*}
        num=${base##*v}
        zeroes=${num%%[!0]*}
        num=${num#$zeroes}      #remove leading zeros, or it uses octal
        num=$((num+1))
        base=${base%v*}
        new=$(printf '%s%04d.%s' "$base" "$num" "$ext")
        echo cp "$file" "new/$new"
done

# 3  
Old 01-29-2013
It would help to know which shell you are using.

The most likely shells - ksh and bash - both can do this the following way:

First, extract from the file name the part you want to increment as a number,
Second, increment the isolated number,
Third: reconstruct the new filename with the number.

For instance, in ksh:

Code:
typeset    infile="XXX_007_0580_xxxx_v0016.aep"
typeset -i num=0
typeset    outfile=""
typeset    work=""

work="${infile%.???}"     # cut off extension
num=${work#?????????????????????}      # cut off anything before "16"

(( num += 1 ))                  # increment number
outfile="XXX_007_0580_xxxx_v00${num}.eap"   # reconstruct file name

You probably got the gist of this and can adapt this procedure to your needs.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
# 4  
Old 01-29-2013
Neutronscott's solution is better as is supports any length string before the version and num values above 99

one enhancement is to deal with octal value using [icode[[bash#]num[/icode] syntax of ksh/bash, ie replace:
Code:
        zeroes=${num%%[!0]*}
        num=${num#$zeroes}      #remove leading zeros, or it uses octal
        num=$((num+1))

with:
Code:
    num=$((10#$num + 1))

# 5  
Old 01-30-2013
How about using BASH
Code:
#!/bin/bash
for file in XXX_007_0580_xxxx_v00{16..17}.aep
do
      echo $file
done

# 6  
Old 01-30-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by neutronscott
Is it always _v####?

Code:
mute@clt:~/temp/scribling$ ./script
cp XXX_007_0580_xxxx_v0016.aep new/XXX_007_0580_xxxx_0017.aep

Code:
#!/bin/sh

for file in *.aep; do
        ext=${file##*.}
        base=${file%.*}
        num=${base##*v}
        zeroes=${num%%[!0]*}
        num=${num#$zeroes}      #remove leading zeros, or it uses octal
        num=$((num+1))
        base=${base%v*}
        new=$(printf '%s%04d.%s' "$base" "$num" "$ext")
        echo cp "$file" "new/$new"
done

So close...
This script stripped out the period (.) in the extension when setting ext and when setting base, but puts it back in the printf format string. It also strips out the vee (v) when setting num and when setting base, but it doesn't put it back. I think the first argument to printf in this script needs to be changed from '%s%04d.%s' to '%sv%04d.%s'.
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neutronscott
# 7  
Old 01-30-2013
Yes, so close ...
Well, it works great on the input file but unfortunately some other .aep files in the directory also get incremented.

I've altered it to work.
Code:
#!/bin/sh

for file in "$@"
do
        ext=${file##*.}
        base=${file%.*}
        num=${base##*v}
        zeroes=${num%%[!0]*}
        num=${num#$zeroes}      #remove leading zeros, or it uses octal
        num=$((num+1))
        base=${base%v*}
        new=$(printf '%sv%04d.%s' "$base" "$num" "$ext")
        cp -nv "$file" "$new"
done

I wrote it into an Automator Service script.

Thank you!
This is truly sweet.

---------- Post updated at 10:46 PM ---------- Previous update was at 10:30 PM ----------

Is there a way other than "cp -n" to make sure it doesn't overwrite an existing file?

If accidentally run on ...v0016 and ...v0017 already exists I just want it to fail rather than create an incorrect ...v0018. Not that it does that now, but if v0018 was created from a copy of ...v0016 it would be incorrect.

Thanks.
Last edited by scribling; 01-30-2013 at 02:36 AM..
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