Renaming a set of files to 001, 002, ... on Linux
If I understand right, you have e.g. image_001.jpg, image_003.jpg, image_005.jpg, and you want to rename to image_001.jpg, image_002.jpg, image_003.jpg.
EDIT: This is modified to put the temp file in the current directory. As Stephan202 noted, this can make a significant difference if temp is on a different filesystem. To avoid hitting the temp file in the loop, it now goes through image*
i=1; temp=$(mktemp -p .); for file in image*domv "$file" $temp;mv $temp $(printf "image_%0.3d.jpg" $i)i=$((i + 1))done
A simple loop (test with echo, execute with mv):
I=1for F in *; do echo "$F" `printf image_%03d.jpg $I` #mv "$F" `printf image_%03d.jpg $I` 2>/dev/null || true I=$((I + 1))done(I added 2>/dev/null || true to suppress warnings about identical source and target files. If this is not to your liking, go with Matthew Flaschen's answer.)