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   From: Florian Diesch    
   Newsgroups: alt.comp.freeware,alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: My ubuntu experience   
   Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:56:43 +0100   
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   "Laszlo Lebrun"  wrote:   
      
   > 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?   
      
   I never said it is. But at least it's *possible*. What's your GUI based   
   solution?   
      
      
   > It should be obvious for everybody that only someone working everyday   
   > with the CLI can remember that.   
      
   You don't have to remember it. With some basic knowledge and some   
   practise you can write it from scratch in a few minutes (or a few   
   seconds with some more practice).   
      
      
      
      
      Florian   
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