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My Guru Perl Friends:

I'm trying to write a quick script to rename a few thousand files in
sequential order.  Before I tax my novice skills creating a bug-filled
script, I'd like to see if this has been done before and is sitting on
someone's harddrive.

Thanks for any help!

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I'm trying to rename a few thousand files in sequential order.

ie.

I have:
I want to change it to:

blah.txt   -->       00000001.txt
blub.txt       -->         00000002.txt
this.txt   -->   00000003.txt
that.txt   -->       00000004.txt
etc.txt           -->         00000005.txt


and so on...

At a later date, more files will show up, so I'd like to be able to start
at whatever number I choose.

ie.

>what number do you want to start at?
2409

>ok

blah.txt   -->       00002409.txt
blub.txt       -->         00002410.txt
this.txt   -->   00002411.txt
that.txt   -->       00002412.txt
etc.txt           -->         00002413.txt


I'll probably be running off a Windows box... I've heard there are
differences in the versions of perl.

Cheers, and thanks!

Mark Harrison
<mark@tmn.com>