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= Create numbered symlinks to files =
This creates a symlink to each .jpg file in ../frames starting from 000001.jpg. Useful for image sequences.
 <nowiki>i=0; for file in ../frames/*.jpg; do let i=i+1; ln -s $file ./$(printf "%06d.jpg" $i); done</nowiki>
Inspiration and discussion on [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3211595/renaming-files-in-a-folder-to-sequential-numbers Stackoverflow]!