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From: Stephen Marley <stephen@memex.com>
To: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: renaming with number prefix
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 17:09:51 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19980123170951.50052@bach.memex.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19980123165404.53612@math.fu-berlin.de>; from Sven Guckes on Fri, Jan 23, 1998 at 04:54:04PM +0100

Quoting Sven Guckes (guckes@math.fu-berlin.de):
> Problem:
> Rename all files within a directory such that their names
> get a numeral prefix in the default sort order.
> 
> Btw, "leading zeroes" would be a bonus.
> 

i=1; for f in *; do echo mv $f $(echo $i| awk '{ printf("%03d", $0)}').$f; ((i++)); done

remove the first echo to really move files.
-- 
stephen@memex.com


  parent reply	other threads:[~1998-01-23 17:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-01-23 15:54 Sven Guckes
1998-01-23 16:21 ` Thomas Koehler
1998-01-23 16:24 ` Bruce Stephens
1998-01-23 16:40 ` Nate Johnston
1998-01-23 17:09 ` Stephen Marley [this message]
1998-01-23 17:19 ` Bart Schaefer
1998-01-28  1:21   ` nirva
1998-01-23 17:28 ` Peter Williams
1998-01-23 21:47 ` Ulrich Pfeifer

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