Padding numbers in filenames

Ian Petersen ispeters-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Mon Feb 26 16:56:25 UTC 2007


There might be a faster way, but I always solve this problem with a
for loop (in Bash--not sure how the syntax differs for other shells).

for i in [1-9].png; { mv $i 000$i; }
for i in [1-9][0-9].png; { mv $i 00$i; }
for i in [1-9][0-9][0-9].png { mv $i 0$i; }

Ian

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