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echo a incrimenting number to the start of files using xargs
$ ls | xargs -I{} sh -c 'i=1; echo "$i {}" >> {}'
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Incrementing number will be echoed to the start of each file name in the current directory using xargs. The file names will be listed with ls, piped to xargs, which will execute the shell command to prepend the incrementing number to the file names.
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