On 11/10/05, der.hans wrote: > Am 09. Nov, 2005 schwätzte Bill Jonas so: > > > On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 06:25:41PM -0700, Josef Lowder wrote: > >> I've been making a shell script like this to rename them, > >> but even doing this in a text editor, editing one line at a time, > >> gets tedious: > >> > >> mv pict0001.jpg a001.jpg > >> mv pict0002.jpg a002.jpg > >> mv pict0003.jpg a003.jpg > > > > for file in pict*.jpg; do mv $file ${file//pict/a/}; done --- > Thanks for demonstrating ${parameter/pattern/string} for us! I'm gonna > have to start using that... Thanks guys, I used that to help me transcode some video's and rename them. for file in Numb3rs*.avi; do transcode -x mplayer -i $file -Z 320x180 -o ${file/.avi/-n.avi} -y xvid4; done -- -Dragos Neagu <>< "If I have been able to see farther, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants." - Sir Isaac Newton "Open source is like science, closed source is like witchcraft" - Linus Torvalds --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss