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   From: Florian Diesch    
   Newsgroups: alt.comp.freeware,alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: My ubuntu experience   
   Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 00:30:11 +0100   
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   Michel Firholz  wrote:   
      
   > On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:07:54 -0600, Topaz_Crow wrote:   
   >   
   >> ...But how about a right   
   >> click menu to rename thousands of text files by stripping the spaces   
   >> and special characters from the current filename, replacing the spaces   
   >> with underscores, prepending "log", appending a number starting with   
   >> 0000001 and capitalizing the extension?   
   >>    
   > Would you please mind to give me a copy of that cli command(s)?   
      
   Something like this (not tested):   
      
   num=1   
   find /some/dir -type f | while read old; do   
    new="log$(echo "$old"|tr ' ' _ |tr -d '\'´?')$(printf '%07d\n' $num)"   
    mv "$old" "$new"   
    num=$((num+1))   
   done   
      
      Florian   
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