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Bash script for massive rename to numbers
Published: 14-09-2008 | Author: Remy van Elst | Text only version of this article
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And here is another nice little script for a problem I have. I use awesome as
window manager, and in my rc.lua file i've setup some nice tweaks so that my
wallpaper changes every 5 minutes to a new one randomly chosen from
/usr/share/wallpapers/
.
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(done by: awsetbg -r '/usr/share/wallpapers'
in a crontab.)
I have a lot of wallpapers, over 1500. awsetbg/feh
has some problems with
filenames and so once in a while I got an error message from feh
,
This scripts renames all the jpg files in a folder to a number. Instead of
having Beach.jpg
, Clouds.jpg
and Tux.jpg
you will have 1.jpg
, 2.jpg
and 3.jpg
.
Script:
#!/bin/bash
RAYMIIWALL=1
#convert everything to lowercase - you need the rename command.
rename 'y/A-Z/a-z/' *
for i in {*.jpg,*.jpeg};
do mv -f -v "$i" "$RAYMIIWALL.jpg";
let "RAYMIIWALL += 1"
done
exit 0
If you get an error like:
mv: cannot stat '*.jpeg': No such file or directory
then it means that there
are no jpeg files to rename.