[Leaplist] howto change the name of every file in a directory

[Dan Cherry]

On Wednesday 08 October 2008 7:54:55 pm Mr. Brunkow wrote:
> Mr. Brunkow wrote:
> > to add something to the front of the name?
> >
> > I have the audio MP3 collection of the Dune line of books.  I want to
> > burn a MP3 CD, but dune, dune messiah are in order by alphabetics, but
> > children of dune is not.  i want to add [dune_3]_ to the front of all of
> > the children of dune mp3 files.
>
> nm, found this great script.  does exactly what i want to do:
>
> http://herselfswebtools.com/files/chgfilename.txt
>
> enjoy if you need it.
>
> --
> Raymond L. Brunkow
> 5th Degree Black Belt
> Chief Instructor and Owner
> Sun State Martial Arts LLC.
> (407) 786-2525
> ssma at ssma.us
> http://www.ssma.us

If you're into KDE (and even if you're not, you could install just the parts 
of interest), you might like krename used with krusader or konqueror.  It's 
slick because you can make changes based on functions, position, and/or  
regex...
very powerful, and it can also be used from cli.

hth

-- 
Dan
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Implementing the solution, solves the problem

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