Re: Human-readable file sorting

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2016-02-22, at 19:09, Nikolaus Rath <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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? :-).

What about thumbnails?  Metadata kept in seperate files by image viewing
programs?

That wasn't too painful, but it was too simple. (Still, thanks for
teaching me that mmv command - nice!)

> Best,
> -Nikolaus

Best,

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Marcin Borkowski
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Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University