Re: How to rename files to numbers in Eshell?

[tomas]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 12:17:33PM +0300, Jean Louis wrote:
> * Felix E. Klee <felix.klee@inka.de> [2021-09-14 10:43]:
> >  3. M-x query-replace-regexp
> > 
> >         [^ ]+jpg → \,(1+ \#).jpg

[...]

> Thanks for example.
> 
> Though it would be good to have the zero padding for cases when there
> are more files than 9 to later easier sort them.

Any lisp code can go between the parentheses in \,(...) so you might
try \,(format "%03d" \#)

(Caveat: I can't test it currently).

It's all described in the Emacs Manual "Regexp Replacement" chapter.

Cheers
 - t

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