Re: [Help-bash] how to bulk rename files

[Chet Ramey]

On 4/12/12 9:42 AM, address@hidden wrote:

> windows folks gave me a usb drive with a single ntfs fs and told me to put
> all files in that
> that should be self explanatory

Sure, insane requirements are a bitch.  You could still have done something
like subdirectories hashed by first letter of filename and made it
marginally more manageable.

Chet
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