Rearrange order of Finder file names

This is actually reasonable easy to do via AppleScript, as long as there is a clear pattern to follow.

For example, do all the file names follow the same pattern? Is it always a 3 digit number? or does the number of digits vary?

Are all the filenames using spaces (i.e. is it sufficient to move the first n characters up to the space to the end of the file name?)

If you can clarify that, it should be pretty easy to throw something together.

Try this bash script.

This example works on files in the folder: Untitled Folder on the Desktop:

Test on a sample of your files

#!/bin/bash

for f in ~/Desktop/Untitled\ Folder/*

do

path=${f%/*}

fileExt=${f##*.}

prefix=$( echo "${f##*/}" | egrep -o "^[0-9]*" )

name=$( echo "${f##*/}" | egrep -o "[^0-9 ].*$" )

newname="${name%.*} $prefix.$fileExt"

mv "$f" "${f%/*}/$newname"

done