Re: bash script example for renaming files (Was: Re: Backing up suggestions?)

houghi wrote:
David Bolt wrote:
[ ! -e "$(dirname $FILE)/$NEW_NAME" ] && break
<snip>
The idea was that it made sure that there wouldn't be another file with
the same name.

Ah, there it was. I removed that line as well. I just resetted the counter
to 3000, so I was sure no number would be close.

Darn. Just found another directory with 4.000 prictures in it. Forgot
about them. Oops. :-)

Oh well, if I wait another hour, it will be another day, so no risk in
overwriting anything by accident. :-)

I am sure glad I put the date in that name.

And just some stats:
[~/wallpaper]
houghi@penne : du -sh
5.4G .
[~/wallpaper]
houghi@penne : find . -type f|wc
26285 26285 1253741

Now I will be burning several of them to a DVD and put those in a
seperate directory ...

.... and run something like:
for I in `find ~/wallpaper/`;do RANDOM_ORDER && SLIDESHOW;sleep 3 ;done
(Ok, the RANDOM_ORDER must be done first)

That will be a, ah, uhm, 22 hour slideshow. Who brings the popcorn? And
beer. You need a LOT of beer for such an event. :-D
--
houghi

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