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Shift camera picture filenames by a certain amount to avoid files with same name
#!/bin/bash
INITIAL_NUM=1012
SEPARATOR='_'
for i in *.JPG
do
basename=`basename $i .JPG`
prefix=`echo $basename | cut -d $SEPARATOR -f1`
current_num=`echo $basename | cut -d $SEPARATOR -f2`
new_num=`expr $INITIAL_NUM + $current_num`
mv $i ${prefix}${SEPARATOR}${new_num}.JPG
done
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