On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Bil K. wrote:
randomize the filenames.
I’ll also ask why the slideshow software can’t just be
told to show things randomly…
Thanks,
rather than rename, i’d just make a dir full of links:
harp:~ > cat a.rb
require ‘fileutils’
dir, dir_full_of_links, ignored = ARGV
dir_full_of_links ||= dir + ‘.d.links’
d, f, fu = Dir, File, FileUtils
glob = f.join dir, ‘*’
srcs = d.glob(glob).map{|path| f.expand_path path}
link = ‘a’
dsts = srcs.map{|path| f.join dir_full_of_links, link.succ!}
fu.rm_rf dir_full_of_links
fu.mkdir_p dir_full_of_links
dsts.sort_by{ rand }
srcs.zip(dsts) do |src, dst|
puts “#{ src } -->> #{ dst }”
fu.ln_s src, dst
end
harp:~ > ls -ltar tmp
total 716
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ahoward ahoward 393 May 5 05:30
G2006050506.sfctmp.dat.hdr
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ahoward ahoward 393 May 5 11:30
G2006050512.sfctmp.dat.hdr
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ahoward ahoward 260640 May 5 11:30
G2006050512.sfctmp.dat
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ahoward ahoward 393 May 5 17:30
G2006050518.sfctmp.dat.hdr
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ahoward ahoward 260640 May 5 17:30
G2006050518.sfctmp.dat
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ahoward ahoward 90112 May 23 09:30
G2006050506.sfctmp.dat
drwxrwxr-x 2 ahoward ahoward 8192 Jul 9 09:25 .
drwx------ 170 ahoward ahoward 81920 Jul 9 09:26 …
harp:~ > ruby a.rb tmp
/home/ahoward/tmp/G2006050506.sfctmp.dat -->> tmp.d.links/b
/home/ahoward/tmp/G2006050506.sfctmp.dat.hdr -->> tmp.d.links/c
/home/ahoward/tmp/G2006050512.sfctmp.dat -->> tmp.d.links/d
/home/ahoward/tmp/G2006050512.sfctmp.dat.hdr -->> tmp.d.links/e
/home/ahoward/tmp/G2006050518.sfctmp.dat -->> tmp.d.links/f
/home/ahoward/tmp/G2006050518.sfctmp.dat.hdr -->> tmp.d.links/g
harp:~ > ls -ltar tmp.d.links/
total 88
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ahoward ahoward 44 Jul 9 09:26 g ->
/home/ahoward/tmp/G2006050518.sfctmp.dat.hdr
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ahoward ahoward 40 Jul 9 09:26 f ->
/home/ahoward/tmp/G2006050518.sfctmp.dat
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ahoward ahoward 44 Jul 9 09:26 e ->
/home/ahoward/tmp/G2006050512.sfctmp.dat.hdr
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ahoward ahoward 40 Jul 9 09:26 d ->
/home/ahoward/tmp/G2006050512.sfctmp.dat
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ahoward ahoward 44 Jul 9 09:26 c ->
/home/ahoward/tmp/G2006050506.sfctmp.dat.hdr
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ahoward ahoward 40 Jul 9 09:26 b ->
/home/ahoward/tmp/G2006050506.sfctmp.dat
drwx------ 171 ahoward ahoward 81920 Jul 9 09:26 …
drwxrwxr-x 2 ahoward ahoward 4096 Jul 9 09:26 .
regards.
-a