Renaming all files in a directory

[raab]

I have about 150 files in a directory. How can I use a loop to rename each file to the current counter value (ex: 1.mp3, 2.mp3, etc)?

[Gnu/Vince]

I had made a script like that a while back, search the boards.

[spiffgq]

try something like this

for i in *
do
mv $i rename$i #modify this line
done

This will iterate over all files returned by calling ls * and store each file (one at a time) in the variable i.

[raab]

Too bad I can't use those, I was on a windows box when I posted that actually. Thanks for the help anyway though :) I will keep those for future reference. I managed to do it there using a PHP script on Apache. I was looking for C or C++ though which is why I asked here if anyone's wondering ;)

[ 23 March 2002: Message edited by: raab ]

[norm]

this may help www.linuxselfhelp.com/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO-12.html#ss12.1 (http://www.linuxselfhelp.com/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO-12.html#ss12.1)
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[TacKat]

You can make a *.bat file in windows to do it for you. It's been too long since I've had to do that so I can't really help though.

You could do it in C or C++, but that's really much more complexity than you need.

[kmj]

<STRONG> I was looking for C or C++ though which is why I asked here if anyone's wondering ;)

</STRONG>

next time remember to ask that ahead of time. We use various and sundry (is that redundant?) different languages here; and you'll get a response for every language unless you mention the specific language. :D

[jscott]

Originally posted by kmj:
<STRONG>We use various and sundry (is that redundant?) </STRONG>

Why, yes, it is:

sun·dry adj.
Various; miscellaneous: a tarball containing *.c, *.pl, and sundry items.

[raab]

Originally posted by kmj:
<STRONG>next time remember to ask that ahead of time. We use various and sundry (is that redundant?) different languages here; and you'll get a response for every language unless you mention the specific language. :D</STRONG>

I'll remember that :)

[takshaka]

Originally posted by raab:
Too bad I can't use those, I was on a windows box when I posted that actually.

I'm sure many of us run Perl, Python and bash (among others) under Windows.