On Fri, 2018-02-02 at 09:48 +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 01Feb2018 12:04, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > 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). > > Yeah, I was thinking about that too. One could easily scan the final directory > for the highest numeric prefix and start counting from that instead of 1. > > Untested: > > ls finaldir | sed -n 's/^\([0-9][0-9]*\)-.*\.jpg$/\1/p' | sort -n | tail -1 > > Or move to some timestamp based prefix, but that I would find misleading on a > personal basis, as I'd confuse it with the date of the photo vs date of the > move. > > > 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). > > A pleasure. I'm now looking at Kphotoalbum as a possible way to do this. It does allow you to reorder images in a group and then save the result as an XML file containing filenames, so it's a start. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
