Prompt for writing code

Imagine a folder on your machine with hundreds of files that needs to be renamed. Renaming each file would take you a lot of time. You know a little Bash, and could write a script to automate this, but that may also take awhile. So let’s write a prompt.

Configuration:

1. Name: 1-bash-rename-files-in-folder
2. Goal: Write a prompt to write code in Bash to rename files in a folder.
3. Model: gemini-pro
4. Temperature: 0.1
5. Token Limit: 1024
6. Top-K: N/A
7. Top-P: 1
8. Prompt:

Write a code snippet in Bash, which asks for a folder name.
Then it takes the contents of the folder and renames all the
files inside by prepending the name draft to the file name.

1. Output:

#!/bin/bash
# Ask for the folder name
echo "Enter the folder name: "
read folder_name
# Check if the folder exists
if [ ! -d "$folder_name" ]; then
echo "Folder does not exist."
exit 1
fi
# Get the list of files in the folder
files=( "$folder_name"/* )
# Rename each file by prepending "draft" to the file name
for file in "${files[@]}"; do
new_file_name="draft_$(basename "$file")"
mv "$file" "$new_file_name"
done
echo "Files renamed successfully."

That seems like good code to me - it’s even documented! However, since LLMs can’t reason, and repeat training data, it’s essential to read and test your code first.

Prompt for explaining code

Explain to me the below Bash code:

#!/bin/bash
echo "Enter the folder name: "
read folder_name
if [ ! -d "$folder_name" ]; then
echo "Folder does not exist."
exit 1
fi
files=( "$folder_name"/* )
for file in "${files[@]}"; do
new_file_name="draft_$(basename "$file")"
mv "$file" "$new_file_name"
done
echo "Files renamed successfully."

Prompts for translating code

Translate the below Bash code to a Python snippet.

#!/bin/bash
echo "Enter the folder name: "
read folder_name
if [ ! -d "$folder_name" ]; then
echo "Folder does not exist."
exit 1
fi
files=( "$folder_name"/* )
for file in "${files[@]}"; do
new_file_name="draft_$(basename "$file")"
mv "$file" "$new_file_name"
done
echo "Files renamed successfully."

Prompts fro debugging and reviewing code

The below Python code gives an error:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/

Users/leeboonstra/Documents/testfolder/renamefiles.py", line

7, in <module>

text = toUpperCase(prefix)

NameError: name 'toUpperCase' is not defined

Debug what's wrong and explain how I can improve the code.

import os
import shutil
# Get the folder name from the user
folder_name = input("Enter the folder name: ")
prefix = input("Enter the string to prepend to the filename: ")
text = toUpperCase(prefix)
# Check if the folder exists
if not os.path.isdir(folder_name):
print("Folder does not exist.")
exit(1)
# Get a list of all files in the folder
files = os.listdir(folder_name)
# Iterate over the files
for file in files:
    # Create a new file name with the prefix "draft_"
    new_filename = f"{text}_{file}"
# Move the file to the new name
shutil.move(os.path.join(folder_name, file),
os.path.join(folder_name, new_file_name))
# Print a success message
print("Files renamed successfully.")

Prompting for code still uses the same regular large language model. Multimodal prompting is a separate concern, it refers to a technique where you use multiple input formats to guide a large language model, instead of just relying on text. This can include combinations of text, images, audio, code, or even other formats, depending on the model’s capabilities and the task at hand.