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* Easy way to rename files sequentially?
@ 2007-11-25 19:39 cothrige
  2007-11-25 20:35 ` Sven Bretfeld
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From: cothrige @ 2007-11-25 19:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
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I sometimes have a list of files which I would like to rename both in a
group and in sequence.  In the past, for very long lists of files with a
number in the name, e.g. "some random audio file ep 01 of 200.mp3", I
would use thunar as it will very easily and automatically add a
sequential number to the front of the names, resulting in 01-xxx.mp3 and
so on.  Of course, there are many reasons I would rather not have to use
thunar, and would prefer to be able to do it from within emacs.  I have
managed to do this a few times using wdired and a keyboard macro, and
this really isn't too bad.  But it seems there must be a better way to
rename a list of files and sequentially number them.  Is there some
relatively easy way to add such a numerical prefix to a list of files?

Patrick

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2007-11-25 19:39 Easy way to rename files sequentially? cothrige
2007-11-25 20:35 ` Sven Bretfeld
2007-11-25 21:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-11-25 21:46   ` reader
2007-11-26  3:39     ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-11-26  7:33       ` reader
2007-11-26 12:49         ` David Hansen
2007-11-26 17:56           ` reader
2007-11-26 18:26             ` David Hansen
2007-11-26 20:40               ` Eli Zaretskii
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2007-11-26 21:00                 ` David Kastrup
2007-11-26 20:08             ` Thierry Volpiatto
2007-11-27  7:07               ` Sebastian Tennant
2007-11-27  7:18                 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2007-11-27 15:14                 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2007-11-27 15:20                   ` Sebastian Tennant
2007-11-26 20:03         ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-11-27 19:31           ` reader
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2007-11-27 20:12             ` Joel J. Adamson
2007-11-27 21:35               ` Thierry Volpiatto
2007-11-27 22:00                 ` Joel J. Adamson
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2007-11-27 23:40                   ` Johan Bockgård
2007-11-27 23:43                   ` David Kastrup
2007-11-28 15:27                     ` Joel J. Adamson
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2007-11-28  4:17           ` cothrige
2007-11-28  6:43             ` Thierry Volpiatto
2007-11-28 14:27             ` Ted Zlatanov
2007-11-28 15:35             ` Joel J. Adamson
2007-11-28 17:18               ` cothrige
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2007-11-28  3:48         ` cothrige
2007-11-25 21:19 ` Xah Lee
2007-11-25 22:40   ` reader
2007-11-25 23:16     ` Peter Dyballa
2007-11-25 23:50       ` reader
2007-11-26  9:20         ` Peter Dyballa
2007-11-26 18:11           ` reader
2007-11-26 22:23             ` Peter Dyballa
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