help with counter
Laura Creighton
lac at strakt.com
Tue Jan 7 03:57:05 EST 2003
hint:
If I gave you a list of filenames, and told you to drop every
third filename, could you do it?
If I gave you a list of filenames and told you to rename them to
newname.x.txt, newname.x+1.txt ... could you do that?
Laura Creighton
> I must have been looking at this problem for to long, but I need some
> help because I am stuck.
>
> I have a series of files on disk file.01.txt, file.02.txt ...
> what I am trying to do is rename all the files a new name but also not
> renaming a few files but maintaining the number sequence
>
> for example
>
> #sample command line
> pyrename.py file.01.txt file.400.txt 3 newfile.01.txt
>
> # breakdown
> script name / filename of first file / last filename / drop every 3rd
> file / new filename and start number
>
>
> should produce
>
> file.01.txt newfile.01.txt
> file.02.txt newfile.02.txt
> file.03.txt
> file.04.txt newfile.03.txt
> file.05.txt newfile.04.txt
> file.06.txt newfile.05.txt
> file.07.txt newfile.06.txt
> file.08.txt
> file.09.txt newfile.07.txt
> file.10.txt ... newfile.08.txt...
>
> the filename changes the amount changes and the file to be dropped
> changes.
>
> For some reason I can't put my head around this problem. Any help
> would be appreciated.
>
> BC
>
>
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