Re: [Help] Renaming files through bash shell scripts

Baskar Selvaraj <baskar-FaTCxNPFk8w/[email protected]> Wed, 28 Oct 2015 21:24:39 +0530

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On 10/28/15, Vinoth Marimuthu <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Baskar,
>
> you can try this
>
> i=1
> cd *test*
> for name in `ls | sort`;
> do
> temp=`echo $name | cut -c 1-3`;
> if [ $i -lt 10 ]
> then
> newname=$temp;
> newname+="0$i.mp4";
> echo $name renamed to $newname;
> mv $name $newname
> else
> newname="$temp$i.mp4";
> echo $name renamed to $newname;
> mv $name $newname
> fi
> i=$((i+1));
> done
> cd ..
>
> change it to directory you want.
>

Thanks, it worked.

S. Baskar
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