I have a directory which contains numbered image files, something like this:
01.png
02.png
03.png
03.svg
04.png
05.png
06.jpg
07.png
08.png
09.png
09.svg
10.png
Sometimes there may be multiple versions of a file in different formats (eg. a png
and svg
version of the 03
and 09
files above) but the numbers are otherwise consecutive. Typically there are 40-80 such files in each directory. The numbers correspond to the order these images appear in a manuscript (a Word document, but that's not important). There is no other way to determine the order of the images.
If I add a new image to the manuscript I need to place a copy of the image in this directory with the correct numbering. So if the new image is the fifth in the manuscript I need to rename the files in the directory to this in order to make room for it:
01.png
02.png
03.png
03.svg
04.png
06.png
07.jpg
08.png
09.png
10.png
10.svg
11.png
What is the most straightforward way from the command line, or from a script or macro to renumber all the files starting at a certain number? I have a standard Fedora Linux install using bash.
Best Answer
I think that it should do the work:
Script takes one parameter - number of you new image.
PS. Put script in another directory than your images. In images directory there should be only images named in this way that you described.