Re: Quick way to sort/renumber subdirectories?

Thank you for both abnswers,

The array idea from ed seems right. I'll tackle it tomorrow.

basically create an array

001 > T001
002 > T002
002A > T003
003 > T004  etc...

and then re-do the loop renumbering the "T" values back to numbers...

gordon.











On Sat, Mar 26, 2022 at 8:20 PM Narcis Garcia <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I feel you will need to develop your own routines like "insert" and
> "remove" to get whole list and rename each element.
>
>
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> Narcis Garcia
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> El 26/3/22 a les 1:47, [email protected] ha escrit:
> > Hello. I have an odd query, and im wondering if you can help.
> >
> > I've got a directory structure 3 levels deep, with 3-digit numbers
> >
> >
> > 023/001/001/(list of files)
> > 023/001/002/(list of files)
> > 023/002/001/(list of files)
> > 023/002/002/(list of files)
> > 024/001/001/(list of files)
> >
> >
> > num1 / num2 / num3 etc/..
> >
> > Volume, issue, article, list of files in that article
> >
> > The first two are fine, I'll not need to alter them when Ive set them.
> > BUT, the 3rd level could have half a dozen numbers, a dozen.
> > three-dozen etc.. (the highest number ive seen is in the 90's)
> >
> > my question is, would there be an easy way to insert / renumber the
> > 3rd level directory....
> >
> > For example:
> >
> > 023/001/013/(list of files)
> > 023/001/014/(list of files)
> > 023/001/015/(list of files)
> > 023/001/016/(list of files)
> >
> >
> > I want to insert a new directory in between 14 and 15 and then
> > re-number the directories higher, up a number
> >
> > EG
> >
> > 023/001/013/(list of files)
> > 023/001/014/(list of files)
> > 023/001/014A/(list of files) << Inserted directory
> > 023/001/015/(list of files)
> > 023/001/016/(list of files)
> >
> > renumbered:
> >
> > 023/001/013/(list of files)
> > 023/001/014/(list of files)
> > 023/001/015/(list of files) << Inserted directory - was 14A
> > 023/001/016/(list of files) - was 15
> > 023/001/017/(list of files) - was 16.
> >
> > (I could in theory include  000A and that will become  001 and
> > everything else will go up a number)
> >
> > OF COURSE, if i REMOVE 013, then the later numbers will REDUCE.
> >
> > ISSUE: if I do add an "A" to the directory name, and I sort in
> > ascending order, i assume 001A comes after 001.  How can I force
> > sorting numerically, or alphabetically?
> >
> >
> > ISSUE: If i do create a small routine, to check the 2nd level
> > directory, locate a possible swap, and process ONE swap, and repeat
> > until therea re no more swaps. How do i avoid the error with too many
> > redirects - if ive got to check multiple times ?
> >
> > if the URl changes - ?articlecheck=004  will that NOT get the redirect
> > loop error if I next check ?articlecheck=005 ??
> >
> > QUERY: is there a quick way to re-order / re-mumber directories with a
> > single command (keeping the 3-digit directory names) ?? a possible PHP
> > process I've not remembered ?
> >



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Gordon.