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Renaming all files in a directory with Bash

by Jack Simpson October 25, 2014

written by Jack Simpson

In the past when I’ve needed to automate a task, such as renaming thousands of files, I’ve tended to use the Python OS module. However, lately I’ve started to write Bash scripts to achieve these tasks, because of how quickly and easily it allows me to work within the Unix filesystem. Last week, one of my programs produced thousands of images with random names. I decided that I needed to write a script to rename all the jpg files in a directory incrementing from 0:

October 25, 2014 0 comment