Padding File names with zeros

Oct 11, 2012 | Linux, shell

need to pad some file names with zeros? couldnt be simpler!

for f in foo[0-9]*; do mv $f `printf foo%05d ${f#foo}`; done

1	for f in foo[0-9]*; do mv $f `printf foo%05d ${f#foo}`; done

rename 's/\d+/sprintf("%05d",$&amp;)/e' foo*

1	rename 's/\d+/sprintf("%05d",$&)/e' foo*

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