[TriLUG] File renaming question

[Matthew Opoka]

Mike,
 
You can set the paths to whatever you would like.
 
#!/bin/bash
x=0
STARTPATH=`pwd`/old
NEWPATH=`pwd`/new

for i in `ls $STARTPATH/*`
do
mv $i $NEWPATH/file$x
x=$((x+1))
done




----- Original Message ----
From: Mike Norwood <norwoodm at embarqmail.com>
To: trilug at trilug.org
Sent: Monday, December 3, 2007 11:38:49 AM
Subject: [TriLUG] File renaming question


Hello,

I think this should be really easy, but am growing dumber as I age.  I 
need to be able to take an undetermined number of files, could be 1 or 2, 
could be 30 and move them to another directory as file1, file2, file3, 
etc.  The names in the first directory could apparently be anything, 
and I am not concerned with the order they are renamed, just as long as 20 
files comes out as file1 through file20.  Please let me know if this 
question is confusing, and I can try to give more details.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Mike Norwood

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