From: Thomas Koehler <thomas@wi3d01.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
To: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: renaming with number prefix
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 17:21:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19980123172116.49065@willkuere.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19980123165404.53612@math.fu-berlin.de>; from Sven Guckes on Fri, Jan 23, 1998 at 04:54:04PM +0100
On Fri, Jan 23, 1998 at 04:54:04PM +0100, Sven Guckes wrote:
> Problem:
> Rename all files within a directory such that their names
> get a numeral prefix in the default sort order.
>
> Example:
>
> $ ls
> abc bar baz foo zyxxy
> $ <command>
> $ ls
> 1.abc 2.bar 3.baz 4.foo 5.zyxxy
>
> So - what's that <command>?
w=1 ; for i in `ls` ; do mv $i ${w}.${i} ; w=$[w+1] ; done
Not very elegant, perhaps...
> Btw, "leading zeroes" would be a bonus.
w=1 ; for i in `ls` ; do
if [ $w -gt 99 ] ; then
mv $i ${w}.${i} ; w=$[w+1]
else if [ $w -gt 9 ] ; then
mv $i 0${w}.${i} ; w=$[w+1]
else
mv $i ${w}.${i} ; w=$[w+1]
fi
fi
done
> Sven
CU,
Thomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-01-23 16:32 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 [this message]
1998-01-23 16:24 ` Bruce Stephens
1998-01-23 16:40 ` Nate Johnston
1998-01-23 17:09 ` Stephen Marley
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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