Renaming Files Sequentially with BASH

Erik — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:34:00 +0000

I made a cool one-liner in bash today that renames files sequentially. Here’s an example that takes all the JPEGs in a directory and renames them in order:


EII=4; for i in *.jpg; do ls $i; \
NEWNAME=IMG_00`printf "%02d" $EII`.JPG; \
echo Renaming $i to $NEWNAME; \
mv $i $NEWNAME; EII=`expr $EII + 1`; done

Pretty cool, huh? This is in relation to my next post. Keep watch…

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Renaming Files Sequentially with BASH