On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Austin Theen wrote:
> I need a quick bash / prel script to rename incomming faxes to a larger
> range.
>
> for instance.
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 uucp uucp 28049 Sep 13 11:43 fax01267.tif
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 uucp uucp 31057 Sep 13 16:28 fax01268.tif
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 uucp uucp 456457 Sep 13 18:08 fax01269.tif
>
> needs to be renamed (without changing the numbers) to this format
>
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 uucp uucp 228605 Sep 20 15:19 fax000001274.tif
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 uucp uucp 86629 Sep 21 08:32 fax000001275.tif
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 uucp uucp 47145 Sep 21 09:15 fax000001276.tif
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 uucp uucp 61035 Sep 21 10:19 fax000001277.tif
> ^^^^
> So essentially, I need to add '0000' after fax*.tif.
>
> Anyone crafty enough to come up with a quick solution?
rename x x0000 fax?????.tif
from --^ ^-to^ ^-victims--^
Try it on one file first in case this is wrong.
I suppose you could do a 'for' loop over all files, and have a 'sed'
inside, but this is much easier and faster.
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