Re: reorder files with a mouse in a file browser and rename them
H.S. wrote:
Hello,
This may be a little odd question. Can any of the file browsers
(konqueror, nautilus) let a user reorder the files in a folder by
dragging them to a certain position and then to rename the ordered files
automatically with a file pattern?
This problem arose because I have a few hundred of images which are
jumbled up in time order. I have seen a friend do something similar in
XP's Windows Explorer. I am hoping it can be done in Linux too in some
way: order the image files by dragging them to their position in the
file browser and to run a script on the newly ordered files to rename
them numerically in that order.
thanks,
->HS
Just in case all the images have EXIF information in them, the task can
be done quite easily with exiv2. Looking at the exiv2 man page I found
the following in the EXAMPLES section:
exiv2 rename img_1234.jpg
Renames img_1234.jpg (taken on 13-Nov-05 at 22:58:31) to
20051113_225831.jpg
exiv2 -r’:basename:_%Y%m’ rename img_1234.jpg
Renames img_1234.jpg to img_1234_200511.jpg
This may not be a solution to the particular problem, but with EXIF and
exiv2 ordering a bunch of images is quite easy.
/KS
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