File Name Manipulation

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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.

i=0; for file in ../frames/*.jpg; do let i=i+1; ln -s $file ./$(printf "%06d.jpg" $i); done

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