On 8/10/19 12:47 am, Andrew McGlashan via luv-main wrote:


On 8/10/19 12:08 am, Andrew Greig via luv-main wrote:


On 7/10/19 8:37 pm, Andrew McGlashan via luv-main wrote:
for x in 6H9*;do mv -v "${x}" "${x/H/J}";done


Hi Andrew,
That is a very elegant one liner. So this one just changed the H to a J

Let's see if some light is entering the brain at this late hour
So this - for x in 6H9* - is saying for the input 6H9* (all files in the
directory with 6H9as a prefix) then do the exchange of the J for the H
using the move command mv  which is another way to rename;   -v for
verbose will print the outcome on screen and after that it looks like
the swap but I am lost from this point. But grateful.


So, in plain bash for your data files, it could be as simple as follows:

   for x in *H*;do mv -vi "${x}" "${x/H/J};done

   and to reverse the changes:

   for x in *J*;do mv -vi "${x}" "${x/J/H};done
A.

Thanks Andrew,

I will be paying more attention in future to the impending 9999, and I will, if I remember, stop the session, quickly change the user option to do 6K9Axxxx and drop in a new SD card. Tonight, after doing that the camera set the counters to 6J9A0001, so I just fired off 85 black frames and formatted the card, so now the numbering system is coherent. BUT if I am asleep at the wheel, or so busy that I sale past 9999 then I will use your one liner to bail myself out, again,

Thanks
Andrew
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