How do you manage renaming files?

Hi all, probably a dumb question, but how do you deal with large groups
of files you want to move into a particular folder, that say, your
camera has named, when the folder already contains files the same camera
has named the same thing previously? Seems like there should be a
fourth option to rename or something in addition to "replace," "don't
replace," or "stop."

Thanks,
Rog

 

Rename them first by using a program like 'A Better Finder Rename'.

 

Here's a small command-line Java program I wrote that does these kinds
of renaming tasks:

RenameWand
http://renamewand.sourceforge.net/

examples:

Drop the "IMG_" prefix:
java -jar RenameWand.jar "IMG_<a>" "<a>"

Replace filenames with "mypics" followed by a 3-digit number starting
at 42, ordering by original filename:
java -jar RenameWand.jar "*.jpg" "mypics<3|41+#FN>.jpg"

Hope that helps

 

No. Anything done by this script, the user could type in directly.
The problem you have in mind would be if this script where "setuser"
or "setgroup" or were running as something like a CGI script, so that
the script would be running as a different user from the person using
it. And in that case, perl would turn on taint mode, which I believe
would prevent the eval from happening.

- Bill Mitchell