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how to set an initial value when batch renaming to sequential numbering?
This is one way that use Perl main internals, without the need to use our global variable:
rename -n 'BEGIN{$main::i = 28} s/_.*/sprintf("_%03d.png", $main::i++)/e' ./*.png
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how to set an initial value when batch renaming to sequential numbering?
A simple approach here is to do:
our $i //= 28;
That is still declare it as a package global variable to work around strict but only assign 28 if not already defined.
Alternatively, with zsh's zmv:
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how to set an initial value when batch renaming to sequential numbering?
As you've already discovered, putting our $i = 28; in the main script doesn't work because it resets $i to 28 for every filename - rename executes every statement in the main script once for every ...
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