A problem I had with some comics is that the image viewer displays the pictures in alphabetical order:
1, 10, 100, 101, 102, ... 109, 11, 110 112, ... 199, 2 ...
Linux provides a command called "rename" which can rename files in bulk. I have written a shell program
that renames the files by padding short numbers with initial zeros. Then, alpha order is correct:
001, 002, 003, ... 010, etc
To use: copy the spoiler somewhere, say path/padnumber .
Give it execute permission. then do:
cd /comic-directory
path/padnumber
I hope you will find this useful. There are some known problems.
1. Earlier versions failed because the comic's author used filenames with punctuation characters. In order to try to
make this version reliable I had to make it replace every string of punctuation characters (except full stop) by a single
underscore. I hope this version is now reliable (it has not yet failed for me) but I urge you to backup your comic before
proceeding.
2. Program is not clever enough to distinguish between the serial number of a file & other numbers like dates. So
a file like
alice!!%the££camel had 3 []] humps on 1 jan .jpg
might get renamed as
alice_the_camel _had _003_humps_on_001_jan .jpg
3. If your comic's directory has subdirectories, the program cannot descend into them & run itself recursively.
1, 10, 100, 101, 102, ... 109, 11, 110 112, ... 199, 2 ...
Linux provides a command called "rename" which can rename files in bulk. I have written a shell program
that renames the files by padding short numbers with initial zeros. Then, alpha order is correct:
001, 002, 003, ... 010, etc
To use: copy the spoiler somewhere, say path/padnumber .
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Give it execute permission. then do:
cd /comic-directory
path/padnumber
I hope you will find this useful. There are some known problems.
1. Earlier versions failed because the comic's author used filenames with punctuation characters. In order to try to
make this version reliable I had to make it replace every string of punctuation characters (except full stop) by a single
underscore. I hope this version is now reliable (it has not yet failed for me) but I urge you to backup your comic before
proceeding.
2. Program is not clever enough to distinguish between the serial number of a file & other numbers like dates. So
a file like
alice!!%the££camel had 3 []] humps on 1 jan .jpg
might get renamed as
alice_the_camel _had _003_humps_on_001_jan .jpg
3. If your comic's directory has subdirectories, the program cannot descend into them & run itself recursively.