H.S. wrote:
Hi, In gtkam, and maybe also in digikam, when we connect a camera and download images to the hard disk, we can specify the destination folder and also filename prefixes (along with dates IIRC) and get appropriate image file names, e.g. 20060404_funpicnic.jpg. This is very helpful in sorting the pictures. I was wondering, can this be done when I am transfering images from a memory card (through a card reader) instead of from a camera directly? ->HS
Adding a prefix to all the files in a directory is as easy as for i in *; do mv $i prefix$i; done(tested under bash). So one approach is to copy the files from the memory card to a temporary directory and run the above command.
More such goodies can be learned by reading "The Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide" (apt-get install abs-guide).
Does that help solve your problem? raju -- http://kamaraju.googlepages.com/cornell-bazaar http://groups.google.com/group/cornell-bazaar/about