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convert single digit to double digits

Terminal - convert single digit to double digits
zmv '(?.ogg)' '0$1'
2012-05-15 18:17:09
User: bst
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convert single digit to double digits

works only in zsh, requires autoload zmv

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for i in ?.ogg; do mv $i 0$i; done
2012-05-15 02:52:52
User: Bonster
Functions: mv
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convert single digit to double digits

from

1.ogg

2.ogg

3.ogg

10.ogg

11.ogg

to

01.ogg

02.ogg

03.ogg

10.ogg

11.ogg

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rename 's/\d+/sprintf("%02d",$&)/e' -- $@
2013-02-14 18:29:18
User: Vilemirth
Functions: rename
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convert single digit to double digits

Uses 'rename' to pad zeros in front of first existing number in each filename. The "--" is not required, but it will prevent errors on filenames which start with "-". You can change the "2d" to any number you want, equaling the total numeric output: aka, 4d = ????, 8d = ????????, etc.

I setup a handful of handy functions to this effect (because I couldn't figure out how to insert a var for the value) in the form of 'padnum?', such as:

padnum5 () {

/usr/bin/rename 's/\d+/sprintf("%05d",$&)/e' -- $@

}

Which would change a file "foo-1.txt" to "foo-00001.txt"

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function rjust_file_nums() {for i in *.ogg; do; mv $i `ruby -e "print ARGV.first.gsub(/\d+/){|d| d.rjust($1,'0')}" $i`; done}
2012-05-19 15:41:06
User: timrand
Functions: mv
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convert single digit to double digits

each number in a file name gets expanded to the number of digets provided as arg_1 of the arguments in rjust_file_nums. Put the funciton in the .bashrc file. Be sure to $ source ~/.bashrc so that the function will be accessible from bash.

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function rjust_file_nums(){for i in *.ogg; do; mv $i `ruby -e "print ARGV.first.gsub(/\d+/){|d| d.rjust($1,'0')}" $i`; done }
2012-05-19 15:39:39
User: timrand
Functions: mv
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convert single digit to double digits

each number in a file name gets expanded to the number of digets provided as arg_1 of the arguments in rjust_file_nums. Put the funciton in the .bashrc file. Be sure to $ source ~/.bashrc so that the function will be accessible from bash.

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zeros=3; from=1; to=15; for foo in $(seq $from $to); do echo mv "front${foo}back" "front$(printf "%0${zeros}d\n" $foo)back"; done
2012-05-17 10:54:45
User: ClashTheBunny
Functions: echo mv seq
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pad file names with zeros so that files sort easily

This command takes a few changes to get to the file format, but once you have that, you're good to go. Set your environment variables and then change the text "front" and "back" to whatever you're files start and end with. You'll end up with some easily sort-able files.

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