Question

Looking around I didn’t see exactly what I was looking for. Some similar stuff, but for some reason what I tried so far hasn’t worked.

My main goals:

1. run script in my current directory
2. open the picture to see what it is
3. rename the picture i just viewed
4. repeat the process without running the script again

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These were the sources I attempted to follow:

Bash Shell Loop Over Set of Files

Bash loop through directory and rename every file

How to do something to every file in a directory using bash?

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echo "Rename pictures. Path"
read path
for f in $path
do  
    eog $path
    echo "new name"
    read newname
    mv $path $newname
    cat $f
done

Answer 1

You might want to try something like this:

for f in $*; do
    eog $f
    echo "new name:"
    read newname
    mv $f $newname
done

If you name the script, say, rename.sh, you can call

./rename.sh *gif

to review all files with extention ‘gif’.