Re: sorting and naming files

The following should do approximately what you want: $ i=1 $ for f in `ls | sort` > do > mv $f text${i}.txt > i=`expr $i + 1` > done 'man bash', 'man sort', and 'man expr' should give you some more insight into what these commands do. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specia

sorting and naming files

hi is there any way to sort and name the files in a directory?   for example...the files are all called like they have been downloaded... now i want them to be like "text01.txt" "text02.txt" etc...   how can i do that?   thx Alexander P. Barkey