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rename files using a leading zeros, counter and templete name bash

Coderunner answered on January 23, 2023 Popularity 2/10 Helpfulness 1/10

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rename files using a leading zeros, counter and templete name bash

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#!/bin/bash
# This script renames files inside subfolders contained within a parent 
#folder. It should be excuted from a parent folder which should only
#contains these subfolders. Its important for each subfolder contain 
#files only (for example .jpg, pdf), no subfolders. Hence this script 
#is more useful for renaming images for deeplearnig application.
#base_name is collect name such as: dog, car, person, so on.
read -p "Enter basename for images " base_name
read -p "Enter image file extention (jpg, png, pdf,...) " ext
read -p "How many leading zeros? " zeroes
DIRS=()
for i in * ; do 
  if [[ -d "$i" ]] && DIRS+=("$i") ; then
    echo "$i" 
  fi
done

for dir in "${DIRS[@]}" ; do
   arr=$(cd $dir && ls *.$ext)
   count=0 
   for f in $arr;
    do 
       count_str=$(printf "%0${zeroes}d" $count)
       mv -- $dir/$f $dir/$base_name$count_str"."${ext}
       ((count=count+1))
    done
   count=0
done

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