Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory
On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 11:37:13AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2019-07-05 at 11:32, mick crane wrote:
> > after they get made I rename them all in consecutive order and if
> > there's other files in there the number order will get messed up.
>
> Then the obvious solution would seem to be: before even starting, check
> whether there are any files in the directory that don't match the naming
> pattern you expect - or, even more importantly, any subdirectories -
> and, if so, abort with an error message and don't do anything.
Or... keep track of the files you created, and only rename *those* files,
not all the files that happen to be in the directory.
Or... give your files the correct names in the first place, so you don't
have to rename them in a second pass.
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