The following should do approximately what you want:
$ i=1
$ for f in `ls | sort`
> do
> mv $f text${i}.txt
> i=`expr $i + 1`
> done
'man bash', 'man sort', and 'man expr' should give you some more
insight into what these commands do.
Marc
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>>> "Alexander P. Barkey (hypnotic)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/24 8:04 PM >>>
hi
is there any way to sort and name the files in a directory?
for example...the files are all called like they have been downloaded...
now i want them to be like "text01.txt" "text02.txt" etc...
how can i do that?
thx
Alexander P. Barkey
