Re: How to rename files to numbers in Eshell?

[Jean Louis]

* Felix E. Klee <felix.klee@inka.de> [2021-09-14 10:43]:
>  3. M-x query-replace-regexp
> 
>         [^ ]+jpg → \,(1+ \#).jpg
> 
>     Result:
> 
>         drw-r--r-- 1  40K Sep 13 22:08 .
>         drw-r--r-- 1  24K Sep 13 22:08 ..
>         -rw-r--r-- 1    5 Sep 13 09:37 1.jpg
>         -rw-r--r-- 1    5 Sep 13 09:37 2.jpg
>         -rw-r--r-- 1  282 Jun 20  2020 desktop.ini
>         -rw-r--r-- 1 625K Sep 13 22:00 3.jpg
>         -rw-r--r-- 1 385K Sep 13 22:01 4.jpg
>         -rw-r--r-- 1 1.1M Sep 13 22:02 5.jpg

Thanks for example.

Though it would be good to have the zero padding for cases when there
are more files than 9 to later easier sort them.

-- 
Jean

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