[ale] help with batch file renaming

Greg Freemyer freemyer-ml at NorcrossGroup.com
Mon Aug 4 17:43:56 EDT 2003


On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 23:17, Jim Seymour wrote:
> I have a number of image files I need to rename.  Example:
> 
> 2003_Billy_Bob_01.jpg
> 2003_Billy_Bob_02.jpg
> 
> to
> 
> 2003_Billy_Jo_Bob_01.jpg
> 2003_Billy_Jo_Bob_02.jpg
> 
> There may be 50 or more files I need to rename at a time.  I have been 
> playing with rename to no avail.  Anyone know a bash script or something 
> to make my life easier?
> 

I've never used mmv, but I think it is designed to do this.

It is part of the SuSE distro, don't know about others.

Greg
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Greg Freemyer

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