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will do it. Notice that "%03d" will make sure that numbers are padded with zeros (and if you need 4 digits total, just use %04d instead). Also, always pipe it to less first before piping to bash, just to make sure that you are not going to inadvertently delete something. | will do it. Notice that "%03d" will make sure that numbers are padded with zeros (and if you need 4 digits total, just use %04d instead). Also, always pipe it to less first before piping to bash, just to make sure that you are not going to inadvertently delete something. | ||
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Revision as of 17:31, 10 December 2010
Let's say you have a list of images named something_###.img with ### spanning 381-560, and you want to renumber them to be from 1 to 180.
echo | awk '{for(i=1;i<181;i++) printf "mv something_%03d.img something_%03d.img\n",i+380,i;}' | bash -sf
will do it. Notice that "%03d" will make sure that numbers are padded with zeros (and if you need 4 digits total, just use %04d instead). Also, always pipe it to less first before piping to bash, just to make sure that you are not going to inadvertently delete something.