[Tutor] file name change script

[Sheila King]

On 24 Mar 2002 20:55:01 -0500, jb <jboyko@sympatico.ca>  wrote about
[Tutor] file name change script:

> What I'm trying to figure out, is how to write a python script which
> would do the following in the bash shell ...
> 
> change all the existing file names in a directory to new file names
> which are made up of sequencial numbers,
> 
> eg.  <oldfilename_x.txt> to <001.txt>
>      <oldfilename_y.txt> to <002.txt>
>      <oldfilename_z.txt> to <003.txt>
>      ...
> 
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated

You can make a script that will do this on any platform that Python runs
on, making it portable. (Maybe you don't care about that right now, but it
is a plus of the Python language...)

Perhaps you want to check out the os module, which has many commands for
working with files, filenames and directory names and paths:
http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-os.html

HTH,

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Sheila King
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