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Had someone request a script that would rename all images to numbers ....

came up with this....

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i just had a concern cross my mind... not sure if it holds any weight, and i'm not sure how to test it...
if there were a couple hundred images in the directory (say 300), and you did the above script, once it finished renaming the ones listed, what's to keep it from continueing on and renaming file #1 to file #301 etc.?

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well... i tested it with 100 files, no problems from above...
but something else came up... in the line:

it would be best to have:

that way if any files have a space in the name, it won't error

It wouldnt know about file 1.jpg, because the for loop is only run once, it would generate a list of all the jpeg files before any filename modifications are made and that list is not modified, except to move you down that list.

You might do something with file to locate jpeg files with literally .jpeg or .Jpg as the extension. or even sometimes a jpg can get renamed to a .gif or some other extention.