Re: [Hampshire] mmv & wildcard expansion in bash

On Monday 18 Jun 2007, john lewis wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:05:14 +0100
>
> Peter Salisbury <peterthevicar@???> wrote:
> > I don't use mmv but it looks from the man page that you need to
> > be a bit more specific with the match, eg:
> >
> > mmv "p*.jpg" "barbecue#1.jpg"
> >
> > should give you barbecue1010001.jpg etc
> >
> > mmv "p????*.jpg" "barbecue#5.jpg"
> >
> > should give you barbecue001.jpg etc
>
> Thanks Peter
>
> I hadn't realised that '*' couldn't expand to cover the whole of
> 'p1010001' and that I needed to specify it using a series of '?'.
>
> I'll give it another go.
>
> > Alternatively use DigiKam which can create date-based
> > subdirectories and do dynamic renaming as you download from the
> > camera (and all sorts of other goodies such as remembering which
> > ones you've already downloaded, auto rotating etc).
>
> I hadn't thought of using DigiKam in the past as I cannot unload
> files directly from the camera but have to use a usb card reader as
> an intermediary but I'll have another look at DigiKam as it sounds
> quite useful.

In digikam you can specify a 'Mounted Camera' with a path to the
directory. That's for cameras which show up as USB mass storage or
for card readers.

Peter