Re: renaming with number prefix

[Nate Johnston <natej@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, Sven Guckes wrote:

>Problem:
>Rename all files within a directory such that their names
>get a numeral prefix in the default sort order.
>Btw, "leading zeroes" would be a bonus.

An amateur's stab at it (I don't know the extended features of
globbing....I must learn).  Again, I beg you to forgive the horrendous
inefficiencies of this approach. 

foreach FILE (`ls -1 | cat -b | tr ' ' ':' | tr '\t' ':'`)
NUMBER=`echo $FILE | cut -c 4-6 | tr ':' '0'`
NAME=`echo $FILE | cut -c 8-80`
echo "mv $NAME $NUMBER.$NAME"
end


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