Rename multiple files at once

Sun Dec 4 02:24:51 UTC 2005

<quote who="Kim Briggs" on Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 01:50:13AM EST>

> On 12/2/05, Wade Smart <wade at wadesmart.com> wrote:
> > 12022005 1312 GMT-5
> >
> > I have a odd situation where I have to rename 130 picture files from a
> > random number to 1.jpg, 2.jpg, etc. Is there anyway to automate that?
> > Quickly!
> >
> > Wade
> >
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> Hi There,
> 
> Here's mine in perl:
> 
> http://kimbriggs.com/computers/computer-software/rename-files.txt

prefixsuffix works for that as well. It's in universe:
    sudo aptitude install prefixsuffix

Seth