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Recursively renaming with incrementation

  Date: Feb 06    Category: Unix / Linux / Ubuntu    Views: 351
  

I have a few thousand pictures that I have rename for a project.

DSC_0120.jpg to something useful like season_game_year.jpg

I have a php script that does this while making a copy and resizing
them. I ran into a problem where, for some reason, the script isnt
taking the pictures in order from the folder. I dont know how its
getting its order but its causing a problem. Say picture 4, 5, and 6
go together in sequence. When after conversion they are 4, 50 and 524
- or something crazy like that.

So Im going at this a different way.

How can I recursively rename and increment the names of image files?

DSC_001.jpg to Fall2009_Sept11_001.jpg

and so on through the folder?

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6 Answers Found

 
Answer #1    Answered On: Feb 06    

The files are already incremented right?

For example in:
>
> DSC_0120.jpg

The 0120 is the incremment. So the simplest way would be to loop a mv
rename such as the following example from a quick terminal session:

:~/test$ touch foo_1.jpg foo_2.jpg foo_3.jpg
:~/test$ ls
foo_1.jpg foo_2.jpg foo_3.jpg
:~/test$ for i in foo*; do mv "$i" wedding"${i/foo}"; done
:~/test$ ls
wedding_1.jpg wedding_2.jpg wedding_3.jpg


Does that work for you? or was your needs more complicated? I think I
originally took that example from Debian-administration.com... (that's what
I have bookmarked anyway) ...

 
Answer #2    Answered On: Feb 06    

I use Gwenview.
Navigate to the photo directory. Select all. Click on the Plugins
dropdown menu. Go to Plugins. And select Rename. Done.

 
Answer #3    Answered On: Feb 06    

does it rename them in order?

 
Answer #4    Answered On: Feb 06    

I have used GPRename - I think that it can do what you ant out the box.

 
Answer #5    Answered On: Feb 06    


Yes it does.............................

 
Answer #6    Answered On: Feb 06    

I like this app you found.

This makes my life SOOOOO much easier.

 
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