Re: [OT] Cleaning up the output of a multiple file rename (bash)

2003-01-03 Thread Bob Proulx
sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-02 19:21:14 -0500]: > instead of using date +%s, incrementing, and sleep, how about > using date +%s%N? what you can do is something like Interesting suggestion. Note that %N is only available in the sid version in coreutils and not the stable woody vers

Re: [OT] Cleaning up the output of a multiple file rename (bash)

2003-01-02 Thread sean finney
hiya gerald, On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 05:11:02AM -0600, Gerald Livingston wrote: > OK, I asked about timing my script because I'm renaming multiple files > using "date +%s" as the base for the new name. I was using a "sleep 1" > in the script to keep the filenames unique because it runs through the

[OT] Cleaning up the output of a multiple file rename (bash)

2003-01-02 Thread Gerald Livingston
OK, I asked about timing my script because I'm renaming multiple files using "date +%s" as the base for the new name. I was using a "sleep 1" in the script to keep the filenames unique because it runs through them much faster than 1 per second. Too slow if I get a LOT of files. So I dug around and