On Wed, 2018-01-31 at 07:45 +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: > Another untested version with a fix for his bug and a fix for the sleep thing: > > cd your-staging-directory > n=1 > while : > do > moved= > for f in *.jpg > do > [ -s "$f" ] || continue > while : > do > target=$( printf 'your-ordered-directory/%05d-%s' "$n" "$f" ) > [ -e "$target" ] || break > n=$((n+1)) > done > mv "$f" "$target" > n=$((n+1)) > moved=1 > done > [ $moved ] || sleep 0.1 > done > > See how that logic feels to you. Just an update on this. I tried a lightly-modified version of your script and got it to work. However as it stands it will only work correctly if I deal with all the files in a set in one run, and don't change my mind later about the order I want (i.e. the only way to do so is to restore the original names and start over). I'll keep thinking about it in any case. Thanks for your suggestions (and ditto to Kenny and Rick among others who tried to help). poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
