Help in Auto Rename and Numbering of Pictures (CLI)

[nujinini]

Hello again!

I've got a jpeg folder with hundreds of pictures that I want to auto rename and number using cli if possible.

Thanks for any information!

regards,

nujinini

[zombykillah]

Of cause it's possible.

You can rename files with "mv"

[zombykillah]

I know my answer was mean ... but since you don't tell anything from what you wanna name into what name ...
OK, here an example:

#!/bin/bash
filenum=0
ls -l *.jpg | while read rights no user group size date time name; do
        let "filenum=filenum+1"
        echo $name$filenum
done

Of cause you can change:
echo $name$filenum
into
mv $name "$date - $filenum.jpg"

[nujinini]

Hi zombykillah!

I have this folder with these files:

20840_1336045240766_1220153007_30816012_6822795_n.jpg
20840_1346402624009_1349602777_30850463_6183981_n.jpg
20840_1346402784013_1349602777_30850467_2433029_n.jpg
20845_1336850060886_1220153007_30817716_7542436_n.jpg
20846_1346481625984_1349602777_30850791_2376455_n.jpg
20846_1346481705986_1349602777_30850793_3666820_n.jpg
20846_1346481745987_1349602777_30850794_1514350_n.jpg
20847_1336259766129_1220153007_30816610_5450647_n.jpg
20847_1336265206265_1220153007_30816620_3050126_n.jpg
20861_1336058161089_1220153007_30816023_7067004_n.jpg
30475_1332638355596_1220153007_30807897_5537917_n.jpg
33391_1336831500422_1220153007_30817689_3206218_n.jpg
33419_1332637595577_1220153007_30807896_5280206_n.jpg
33432_1336834860506_1220153007_30817695_7224272_n.jpg
33437_1336835380519_1220153007_30817696_2804869_n.jpg
34037_1332649755881_1220153007_30807925_6585009_n.jpg
34065_1336236165539_1220153007_30816576_3547377_n.jpg
34065_1336862021185_1220153007_30817744_5415623_n.jpg
34066_1336045640776_1220153007_30816013_4997024_n.jpg
34099_1336820820155_1220153007_30817665_3648359_n.jpg
34116_1336274126488_1220153007_30816632_4514228_n.jpg
34119_1336060681152_1220153007_30816026_1178698_n.jpg
34148_1346377983393_1349602777_30850403_6697412_n.jpg

This is only partial output since there are hundreds of it in that folder.

I wanted to rename and automatically number all these. AFAIK, if I do

$ mv /pathtofolder/folder /pathtonewfolder/newname

I can rename the folder to newname. I wanted to rename all the jpegs to say


34148_1346377983393_1349602777_30850403_6697412_n. jpg to family001

and so on.

Thank you for any advise.

[TaZMAniac]

I know this thread is a few weeks old.
Not a true Linux solution but does the job well.
When I used Windows my favorite image software was Irfanview.

When I moved to Linux I could not find an imaging tool that had the features of Irfanview.
Then I found that you can use Irfanview with wine.

It has a very powerful batch rename tool that allows you to select some or all images in a folder and rename it with a sequential number added to the end of the file name.

Like I said, not a true Linux alternative but until an imaging tool that is as powerful as Irfanview is made for Linux I will continue using it for those jobs that Linux imaging tools can't handle.

Wine install instructions can be found here;
WineHQ - IrfanView 4.x

[nujinini]

TaZMAniac!

I just notice your post now. Sorry for the late replay man. Thank you for taking time to share your views. I will be giving it a try. Was not successful with the other suggestion and was kinda losing hope, figuratively speaking :P

[zombykillah]

Hi,
unfortunately I weren't notified by your answer.

Here a little script code that should work:

#!/bin/bash
filenum=0
folder="/pathtofolder/folder"
newfolder="/pathtonewfolder/newname"
mkdir -p $newfolder
cd $folder
ls -l *.jpg | while read rights no user group size date time name; do
        let "filenum=filenum+1"
#        echo $name$filenum
        cp $name $newfolder"/Famili"$filenum".jpg"
done

I've used cp so that your old files stay as they are ... he will start copy the files into the new directory.
Haven't testes the script but it should work.

just write it into a file, run "chmod 777 filename"
and execute it with ./filename

but first you will need to replace the $folder $newfolder strings in the script with the real ones ...