Re: Human-readable file sorting

[Nikolaus Rath]

On Feb 20 2016, Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> wrote:
>> BTW, I like this idea.  FWIW, exactly because of this issue I use
>> trailing zeros when naming files, and do not expect file sorting to be
>> too smart, but many people don't do this, and renaming files I get from
>> them is a pain.
>
> I had a collection of stuff that I had padded with four zeros, and then
> I needed another digit.  *sigh*

$ mmv 'prefix*.jpg' 'prefix0#1.jpg'

That wasn't too painful, was it? :-).


Best,
-Nikolaus

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