Nice Dice released!

After an intense night of coding, I have finished the first release of my dice game, Nice Dice. Check it out!
http://sites.google.com/site/amysnicedice/news

notecards, one new and one revised

Last week I posted my ZSphere quick notecard. With the help of iWork I have revised and fancy-publified (yes, a new word) it and added a new ZBrush Hotkey notecard. As with everything else on this site, these are protected by a Creative Commons License, so please only distribute with credit!

Rename files the easy way in OS X

Can’t find that unix rename command to change filename in batches? Here’s a way to do what you need without rename in the terminal.

Step 1: try out the command first without hurting any files!

ls foo*.jpg | awk '{print("mv "$1" "$1)}' | sed 's/foo/bar/2'

This will just print out a list of changes that could be made. foo*.jpg is the search for files to change. foo is the text to search for and bar is what to replace it with.

Step 2: Ready to make some changes? the same command as before with a little extra will change all those filenames with no need to open automator.

ls foo*.jpg | awk '{print("mv "$1" "$1)}' | sed 's/foo/bar/2' | /bin/sh