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I recently learned to use a for loop on the command line to organize hundreds of files in a few seconds.
Example of said Black Magik?
Let's say, for example, you have a directory of files named x01-001; x01-002; x02-001; x02-002; x03-001... and so on.
I want to create subdirectories for each 'x' iteration and move each set to the corresponding subdirectory. My loop would look like this:
for i in {1..3}; do mkdir Data_x0$i && mv x0$i* Data_x0$i; done
I've also been using it if I need to rename large batches of files quickly.
Check out
rename
SED combinator, you win ๐
xargs
is also fun, and assuming your for loop doesn't update anything out of the loop, is highly parallelizableThe equivalent of the same command, that handles 10 tasks concurrently, using
%%
as a variable placeholder.But for mass renaming files,
dired
along with rectangle-select and multicursors within Emacs is my goto.