From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Felix E. Klee" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to rename files to numbers in Eshell? Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2021 10:44:54 +0200 Message-ID: <87ee9u2neh.fsf@inka.de> References: <87tuirckxp.fsf@inka.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="18675"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:55/2MF9CzQ9c9iV3HWemf7odprE= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 12 10:46:04 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mPL7k-0004eb-8I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 12 Sep 2021 10:46:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55688 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mPL7i-0007sJ-9A for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 12 Sep 2021 04:46:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40108) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mPL6y-0007sB-V8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Sep 2021 04:45:16 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:48210) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mPL6j-00062S-5B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Sep 2021 04:45:15 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mPL6h-0003H4-4A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Sep 2021 10:44:59 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.248, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:133004 Archived-At: Jean Louis writes: > (defun renumber-files (&optional files) > […] Thanks for the alternative approach, Jean! It’s still quite verbose, though, even involving the creation of a custom function. Renaming files to numbers is actually very easy using Dired’s `wdired-change-to-wdired-mode`, and then doing regexp replace. The purpose of my question is to learn a bit about Eshell. > I have chosen to renumber it by date, you can customize it > yourself. It is handy when I am downloading many pictures or videos, > then I know at what date they were downloaded. Of course in that case > I don't mind of file names significance, that is why I am renumbering > them. For organizing imported media files by date, I have a Bash script `organize_media`: https://gist.github.com/feklee/85b5f13e83c796472dda16e31e32b7f3