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Fill Gaps

A utility for renaming numbered files in a folder. fillGaps closes gaps in a numbered sequence (e.g. spam001, spam003 becomes spam001, spam002), an…

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Fill Gaps

A utility for renaming numbered files in a folder. fillGaps closes gaps in a numbered sequence (e.g. spam001, spam003 becomes spam001, spam002), and insertGaps opens a gap at a chosen index.

Example

Given files spam001.txt and spam003.txt in the current directory, running fillGaps closes the gap:

Before: spam001.txt, spam003.txt
After:  spam001.txt, spam002.txt

Calling insertGaps('.', 'spam', 2) on spam001.txt, spam002.txt would shift files up to open a slot at index 2:

Before: spam001.txt, spam002.txt
After:  spam001.txt, spam003.txt

How to run on localhost

python fill_gaps.py

Dependencies

Standard library only (os, re, shutil).