UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

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!

Code:

perl -wl -e 'foreach $file (glob "*.html"){
my $newfile=$file;
$newfile=~s/-([0-9])\./-00$1\./ and rename $file,$newfile and next;
$newfile=~s/-([0-9]{2})\./-0$1\./ and rename $file,$newfile;
}'

Enjoy,
Regards.

Gaurav.

Hello,

I dint get any reply on your part. Did it work out?

Regards,
gaurav.

Gaurav,

Where do i enter that? at unix command?

hi,

migrate to the directory where the files are.
then execute the command at the shell prompt.
It wouuld work.

regards,
gaurav

gaurav,

I migrate to the directory, then execute the command.

It looks as if it works, as after about a second, it just brings me back to the command (no errors output, or anything)

however when I run 'ls' on the directory, it doesnt appear to have changed any files nor do I see any new ones.

Any ideas?

Hello,

Thats strange . Considering I checked it on my box and it worked perfectly a/c to the problem stated by you in the thread.