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razortooth

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    Adding number prefix based on text in file name
    « on: August 07, 2017, 12:25:02 PM »
    Hi, Noob here.
    I'm trying to learn some basic unix to make some mundane tasks easier. In my job I often get surround sound audio files provided and manually add numbers to retain the order for injest into other programs. I have seen some commands for renaming or replacing text in strings, however I don't think this will help.
     
    audio.L.wav
    audio.R.wav
    audio.C.wav
    audio.Lfe.wav

    Would need to become

    1_audio.L.wav
    2_audio.R.wav
    3_audio.C.wav
    4_audio.Lfe.wav

    Does anyone have an idea of the best way to have a script recognize the .L.wav in the file name and just add a 1_ to the beginning?

    Many thanks in advance.