On 05.05.17 20:16, Mark Trickett via luv-main wrote: > I need to learn perl,
For other tasks, perhaps? > but will do a lot better around other people, which is not so easy > when in a rural area with less population and an excess of Windows and > mac users who have no interest in more than using the bare minimum of > provided utilities. Have you tried Russel's elegantly minimalist solution? Just trying the first action on the command line: $ n="01032017(001).jpg" $ echo $(echo $n|cut -c 5-8)$(echo $n|cut -c 3-4)$(echo $n|cut -c 1-2) gives a very fine: 20170301 The "(001).jpg" is added in the third line. If time is short, and mental energy drained by other demands, then KISS is key, so you can gain a quick success, I figure. (This one isn't a task which needs later upscaling.) Erik _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main
