Renaming a set of files to 001, 002, … on Linux

Question

I originally had a set of images of the form image_001.jpg, image_002.jpg, ...

I went through them and removed several. Now I\'d like to rename the leftover files ba

Answer 1

A simple loop (test with echo, execute with mv):

I=1
for F in *; do
  echo "$F" `printf image_%03d.jpg $I`
  #mv "$F" `printf image_%03d.jpg $I` 2>/dev/null || true
  I=$((I + 1))
done

(I added 2>/dev/null || true to suppress warnings about identical source and target files. If this is not to your liking, go with Matthew Flaschen's answer.)