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anthony wrote:No need to modify, Just use it as I said.

mv_perl 's/\d+/sprintf "%05d", $&/eg' files...

Thanks for the further input. I guess I misunderstood. But, in fact, I still don't understand. I can understand that mv_perl is a perl script, and I know how to run a perl script. I can also guess that the stuff inside inverted commas is an option that gets passed to the script--correct? But I'm drawing a blank on the "files..." part. Am I supposed to insert something in place of "files..."? Does the script handle wildcards--like *.jpeg? If I could grok perl I could probably look at the script and tell that. But the only thing I grok about perl at the moment is how to run a script someone else has constructed. If you can offer any further clarification, that would be appreciated.

James

The "file..." is the list of file names to 'fix' using the perl regular expression given (expand all numbers to '5' digits). You can just put '*' here to 'fix' all the file names.

Sorry but the script does assume that you have a "merge" script, which is a non-destructive rename program. Use -f to have it just directly rename the files...

mv_perl -f 's/\d+/sprintf "%05d", $&/eg' filenames_to_rename_here...

The perl script is quite common around the web and is based on one written by Larry Wall originally.