I have a lot of images in subdirectories with same string in filename and I want to rename these files and append a suffix to their names.
Example:
1/AB2011-BLUE-BW.jpg
1/AB2011-WHITE-BW.jpg
1/AB2011-BEIGE-BW.jpg
2/AB2011-WHITE-2-BW.jpg
2/AB2011-BEIGE-2-BW.jpg
1/AB2012-BLUE-BW.jpg
1/AB2012-WHITE-BW.jpg
1/AB2012-BEIGE-BW.jpg
...
I want to rename this files in
1/AB2011-01.jpg
1/AB2011-02.jpg
1/AB2011-03.jpg
2/AB2011-04.jpg
2/AB2011-05.jpg
1/AB2012-01.jpg
1/AB2012-02.jpg
1/AB2012-03.jpg
...
How can I do this in bash or python? Which image get 01,02,03 doesn't matter.
Hopefully I understood what you wanted correctly. But heres how to do it below.
# importing os module
import os
# Function to rename multiple files
def main():
folder = "1"
# Keeps track of count of file name based on first field
fileNameCountDic = {}
for count, filename in enumerate(os.listdir(folder)):
# Original path to file
src = f"{folder}/{filename}" # foldername/filename, if .py file is outside folder
# Get first field in file name so "B2011-BLUE-BW.jpg" -> "B2011"
firstFileNameField = filename.split("-")[0]
# If first field in filename is not in dic set it to be the first one
if firstFileNameField not in fileNameCountDic:
fileNameCountDic[firstFileNameField]=1
else: # Else inc the count
fileNameCountDic[firstFileNameField]+=1
# Turn file count number to String
fileNumber = str(fileNameCountDic[firstFileNameField])
if len(fileNumber)==1: # Add space if one digit
fileNumber=" "+fileNumber
# Set the new path of the file
dst = f"{folder}/{firstFileNameField}-{fileNumber}.jpg"
# rename() function will
# rename all the files
os.rename(src, dst)
main()