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   From: "Laszlo Lebrun"    
   Newsgroups: alt.comp.freeware,alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: My ubuntu experience   
   Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 15:59:46 +0100   
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   Florian Diesch wrote:   
   > 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   
   >   
   That is not really intuitive, is it?   
   It should be obvious for everybody that only someone working everyday with    
   the CLI can remember that.   
      
   Michel    
      
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