Re: Renaming groups of files modifying only a character

On 2006-07-11, Shaman wrote:
How could I modify groups of files which are defined by a progressive
number, like:

100**.example

varying just a char:

101**.example

Some systems have a rename command; for those that don't:

n=100
for file in 100*.example
do
mv -i -- "$file" "$n${file#100}"
n=$(( $n + 1 ))
done

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