Hi,



How to make automatically to number by a SHELL script all the files present
in the repertory "/home/toto/"?

The files will be numbered in the following way of 1 to N:



1-***
2-***
3-***

....
..........
n-***



Thanks.



GUY

What would your criteria be for the renaming order ? timestamp ?
filenames in alpha/numeric order ?

As this will affect how you number your files right ?

i.e. Lets create some files to play with...

#!/bin/ksh93
for (( i= 1 ; i < 10 ; i++ ))
do
date > file-${i}
done

ls -l
total 72
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 25 30 Sep 11:58 file-1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 25 30 Sep 11:58 file-2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 25 30 Sep 11:58 file-3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 25 30 Sep 11:58 file-4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 25 30 Sep 11:58 file-5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 25 30 Sep 11:58 file-6
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 25 30 Sep 11:58 file-7
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 25 30 Sep 11:58 file-8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 25 30 Sep 11:58 file-9

now lets rename them (NOTE: this is REALLY FORKY and is NOT VERY
EFFICIENT, you would be better off doing this in perl if you have
thousands of files).

Also, NOTE that I have just done a simple "ls" which will list the
files in alpah/numeric order .. you could use any of the ls plags to
get a different order, or the find command etc.. this is just an
example of how you could do it, there are probably quite a few avenues
to explore, this is just one of them.

ls | awk '{print NR,$1}' | while read num file
do
mv $file ${num}-${file}
done

ls -l
total 72
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 25 30 Sep 11:58 1-file-1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 25 30 Sep 11:58 2-file-2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 25 30 Sep 11:58 3-file-3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 25 30 Sep 11:58 4-file-4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 25 30 Sep 11:58 5-file-5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 25 30 Sep 11:58 6-file-6
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 25 30 Sep 11:58 7-file-7
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 25 30 Sep 11:58 8-file-8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 25 30 Sep 11:58 9-file-9


HTH
Mark Taylor