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Rename Jpgs in a Directory with a Prefix and Sequential Numbers

Dave Posted on 01-Jul-2014 Posted in Linux Tagged with bash, fast, JPEG, Linux, prefix, script, sequential number, unix
$ cd pictureDirectory
$ find -name '*.jpg' | gawk 'BEGIN{ a=1 }{ printf "mv %s MY_FILE_PREFIX_%02d.jpg\n", $0, a++ }' | bash 

Adapted from Pero’s post at Stackoverflow.

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