Conflict resolution by renaming in reverse

[mavhc]

Give a list of files
file01
file02
file03

and a wish to increase the number on each by 1

file02
file03
file04

using

f2 -f "file\d\d" -r "file{2%02d}" -l 1

it fails due to conflicts, it can't rename file01 to file02 because file02 exists

However this would work if file03 was first renamed to file04

Is this possible to do now/add as a feature?

[ayoisaiah]

You can index with a capture variable and sort it naturally in reverse to achieve what you want:

f2 -f 'file(\d+)' -r 'file{$1%02d1}' -sortr natural