[SOLVED] massive rename help

Question

hi this is my very first message asking for help.
I want to rename a lot of files via terminal, each 10 files are in different folders, which are arranged in this way:
.../my_files
    |---/folder_01
    |---/folder_02
    |---/folder_03
and the name of this is something like:
[name] of the file.png (with the spaces)
I want to rename the files in ascending numbers like:
Folder 01
0001.png
0002.png
Folder 05
0110.png
can you help me to figure it out?
(I use the terminal everyday, is just that I haven't faced this situation before.)
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Last edited by shuuichi_nitori (2013-01-09 18:07:08)

Answer 1

If I understand your problem correctly, then you can use qmv to do your job. Considering the following directory structure:
$ ls -1R my_files/
my_files/:
folder_01
folder_02
my_files/folder_01:
a file.png
another file.png
whatever.png
my_files/folder_02:
some name.png
some other name.png
use
qmv -R my_files/
or
qmv -f do -R my_files/
and change file names. Of course you don't have to do it by hand -- you can just generate new names automagically and then paste them to the editor launched by qmv.
Then do the same with directory names and you're done. Example result:
$ ls -1R my_files/
my_files/:
Folder 01
Folder 02
my_files/Folder 01:
0001.png
0002.png
0003.png
my_files/Folder 02:
0011.png
0012.png
Last edited by msthev (2012-12-30 12:51:51)