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Convert File Names to Alphabet Letters
For example, I have several image/photo files in a directory, and I want to pass these long names of the respective images in names designated by letters of the alphabet
IMG01-03082016.jpg
IMG02-03082016.jpg
IMG03-03082016.jpg
etc. ...
A.jpg
B.jpg
C.jpg
etc. ...
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The comment of Jjoao and the response of Lacobus got me to the shell-script:
#!/bin/sh
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# Por - Diego Henrique
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# Programa - Renomear Arquivos Para Letras Do Alfabeto
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# NOTA - Deve-se ter no máximo 26 Arquivos, alojado neste diretório
# Isso se dá ao número no qual corresponde as 26 Letras Alfabéticas
#
n=0; LETRA=(A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z);
ls $HOME/*.png | while read IMG; do mv "$IMG" "${LETRA[n++]}.png";
done
This is what worked perfectly on my Pinguin System - Damn Small Linux
About my own experience (mistakes/successes), I decided to leave this as an absolute answer.
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Follow solution tested for the problem:
#/bin/bash
n=0
alfabeto=$(echo {A..Z})
find . -maxdepth 1 -name '*.jpg' -type f | while read imagem; do
mv "${imagem}" "${alfabeto[n++]}.jpg"
done
exit 0
#fim-de-arquivo#
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What if the number of files is greater than the number of letters in the alphabet? How would you name the files that are outside the alphabet range?
– gato
ls *.jpg /| head -26 | perl -nlE 'system ("echo mv $_ ". chr(64+$.).".jpg")'and erase the "echo" if it looks good to you...– JJoao
@Dener Carvalho Actually, I do not intend to leave inside the directory more than 26 images that in numbers corresponds to the alphabet. OK!
– Diego Henrique
@Diegohenrique, as noted in the commentary, if he is "showing" the intended operation, removes the "echo"
ls *.jpg /| head -26 | perl -nlE 'system ("mv $_ ". chr(64+$.).".jpg")'.– JJoao