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From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
To: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
Cc: Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org>,
	Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Human-readable file sorting
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 12:13:20 +0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP_d_8VEfchnvhxUX-uAP07RSGysu-JhhnL0yWmtWGAoC4Pp4A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k2lw8m9p.fsf@mbork.pl>

On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 3:31 AM, Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> wrote:

>> $ mmv 'prefix*.jpg' 'prefix0#1.jpg'
>
> What about thumbnails?  Metadata kept in seperate files by image viewing
> programs?

Those are caches and should be invalidated by the rename.


> That wasn't too painful, but it was too simple. (Still, thanks for
> teaching me that mmv command - nice!)

Perl comes with a handy script rename(1) which performs multi-file
renames by applying a Perl regexp substitution, optionally filtering
by wildcard:

$ rename 's/^prefix(.*?)\.jpg$/prefix0$1.jpg/'


The util-linux package contains another utility, also named rename(1).
Its man page explicitly gives this use case as an example:

       Given the files foo1, ..., foo9, foo10, ..., foo278, the commands

              rename foo foo0 foo?
              rename foo foo0 foo??

       will turn them into foo001, ..., foo009, foo010, ..., foo278.



  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-23  6:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-20  1:15 Human-readable file sorting Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-20  1:58 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-20  2:26   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-20  2:33     ` John Wiegley
2016-02-20  6:00       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-20  6:12         ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-20  7:15           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-20  8:14             ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-22 18:09             ` Nikolaus Rath
2016-02-22 21:31               ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-23  6:13                 ` Yuri Khan [this message]
2016-02-23  8:32                   ` Andreas Schwab
2016-02-24  5:39                     ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-20  6:17         ` John Wiegley
2016-02-20  7:11           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-20  9:28         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-20 10:24           ` martin rudalics
2016-02-20 10:53             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-20 17:30         ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-02-20 18:25           ` Drew Adams
2016-02-20  6:16       ` dired and ls (was: Human-readable file sorting) Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-20  6:19         ` dired and ls John Wiegley
2016-02-20  7:25           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-20  8:01             ` John Wiegley
2016-02-23  7:15               ` Thierry Volpiatto
2016-02-23 16:34                 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-20  9:57         ` dired and ls (was: Human-readable file sorting) Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-20 19:21           ` dired and ls John Wiegley
2016-02-20 21:02             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-20 21:24               ` John Wiegley
2016-02-21  2:10           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-20  8:53     ` Human-readable file sorting Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-20 11:32       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-20 11:36         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-20 11:45           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-20 12:35             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-21  2:14               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-21 23:36                 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-22  2:58                   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-22 18:01                     ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-22 18:13                       ` Pierpaolo Bernardi
2016-02-22 19:00                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-23 17:43                         ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-23 18:00                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-24  1:51                             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-24 13:43                               ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-24 13:41                             ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-20 14:23             ` Alexis
2016-02-20 14:43               ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-21  2:18               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-21  9:30                 ` Alexis
2016-02-21 10:07                   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-21 19:27                   ` Yuri Khan
2016-02-21 20:21                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-20 15:35       ` Pierpaolo Bernardi
2016-02-20 15:52         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-21 12:45           ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-20 16:03         ` Herring, Davis
2016-02-20 16:23           ` Paul Eggert
2016-02-21  2:20         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-21 12:45         ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-21  2:38     ` Stefan Monnier
2016-02-20 14:32 ` Richard Stallman

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