Note that the numeric suffix have two digits in order to preserve the original alphabet order of the files. If "natural" 1-99 numbers were used, then ...
Add sequence numbers
Edit: OK - I think a specific example of my situation for batch is necessary to understand the sorting issue. What I have are .cab files in a folder, like ...
Try the following command i=1; for file in $(ls -v *.avi); do echo "$file --> $i.${file#* .}"; i=$((i+1)); done | less. Provided the (info about content) ...
Then you can do it really ridiculously easily:
I can't think of a solution that handles incrementing the counter in a more clever way, but this should work: i=0 for fi in abc_??????.png; do mv "$fi" abc_$i.png ...
Believe it or not, it used to be a real pain to batch-rename files on Mac.
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original title: sequential numbering files Having spent many hours editing and sorting photos from a recent trip I want to take them to a local ...
Renaming a load of files or folders in a sequential numbering order