Thank you very much for your suggestion. It worked almost perfectly. The first time I tried it, it failed because the command script put an extra zero in the numbers of the original files, so it...
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Thank you very much for your suggestion. It worked almost perfectly. The first time I tried it, it failed because the command script put an extra zero in the numbers of the original files, so it...
This looks good, too. I think. As I said above, I'm not well-versed in command line work. I don't actually understand anything you wrote, but I'll try it. Probably after my vacation. Thank you...
This does look promising. I'm going on vacation next week and may not have time to try it before I leave. I have used computers for more than forty years, all sorts, many systems. I'm not afraid of...
Ah, now I see our problem, we're talking past each other. You assume I have two text files and want to make one look like the other. I have only one text file, the one with the new names. The first...
Thank you for a quick reply. I think you misunderstood what I want to do. Your script removes three digits. I want to add three digits. If they were consecutive, I could use Thunar and have it...
I have a lot of files I'd like to rename automatically. I've been doing it manually and it's tedious. It's a list of pictures, with names. I would like to add a number to the beginning of the...
I am running Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS on a desktop Dell Optiplex 990. For a month or so, every once in a while, the keyboard stops working. The mouse works, but clicking on a hyperlink does nothing. If...
Problem solved. As Autodave and CatKiller suggested, it was the mouse. I swapped it for another which worked fine. And the errant mouse had the same problems on another, Windows, computer. The...
My screen, in any program with a window longer than one page, is moving around by itself, without my help. I can scroll the screen up or down, but it does that by itself, too. I notice now that...