SalvadorP/batchrename.sh

Created February 8, 2017 10:15

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Unix CLI batch rename files

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batchrename.sh

	# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3211595/renaming-files-in-a-folder-to-sequential-numbers/34153342#34153342
	ls \| cat -n \| while read n f; do mv "$f" "$n.extension"; done

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SalvadorP commented Feb 8, 2017

Credits for the stackoverflow user, I have the gist just to get the cli command faster.

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