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#210178 - 2015-03-30 04:40 PM Rename multiple files
Jasniel Jasniel Getting the hang of it Registered: 2000-04-08 Posts: 77	Hi The filenames in the directory will be as follows: 2015-03-26-12-24-29-3226.txt 2015-03-26-13-23-23-8543.txt 2015-03-26-15-13-40-2580.txt (File format read as YYYY-MM-DD-HH-MM-SS-XXXX.txt) How can I rename the above multiple text files to something else? Like: rename 2015-03-26-12-24-29-3226.txt to 1.txt rename 2015-03-26-13-23-23-8543.txt to 2.txt rename 2015-03-26-15-13-40-2580.txt to 3.txt
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#210180 - 2015-03-30 05:12 PM Re: Rename multiple files [Re: Jasniel]
Jochen Jochen KiX Supporter Registered: 2000-03-17 Posts: 6380 Loc: Stuttgart, Germany	umm .. to get this straight, you want to rename a bunch of files in a certain directory to descending numeric filenames (descending relative to "timestamp" in file name) ? ie. newest file = 1.txt, oldest file = [amount of files].txt Please confirm $;\)$ _________________________
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#210182 - 2015-03-30 05:57 PM Re: Rename multiple files [Re: Jochen]
Jasniel Jasniel Getting the hang of it Registered: 2000-04-08 Posts: 77	Hi Jochen You are right! The YYYY-MM-DD will be the same. The order is based on the HH-MM-SS.
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#210183 - 2015-03-30 09:31 PM Re: Rename multiple files [Re: Jasniel]
Jochen Jochen KiX Supporter Registered: 2000-03-17 Posts: 6380 Loc: Stuttgart, Germany	still the order is then newest = 1, oldest = n ok then, is the creation date of the files corresponding with the original filenames? if we are at it, is this a dynamic folder? Means: Is the rename action you want to achieve of periodic manner? If, yes: what to do with the already renamed files? Edited by Jochen (2015-03-30 09:33 PM) Edit Reason: 1 leads to another ... _________________________
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#210187 - 2015-03-31 05:22 AM Re: Rename multiple files [Re: Jochen]
Jasniel Jasniel Getting the hang of it Registered: 2000-04-08 Posts: 77	The creation date might not be corresponding to the filenames. it will be a daily task. there will be 4 text files created and I will move it to another folder, and then rename each file to another filename. The second part will be to go through the 4 files, to look for certain key words and append it to another text file. (This part of the script, I already completed).
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#210189 - 2015-03-31 10:21 AM Re: Rename multiple files [Re: Jasniel]
Jasniel Jasniel Getting the hang of it Registered: 2000-04-08 Posts: 77	Hi Jochen Thanks for your help. Managed to figure it out by using the dos syntax - "type". Type to append all the contents from the three text files to one text file.
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#210190 - 2015-03-31 12:04 PM Re: Rename multiple files [Re: Jasniel]
Jochen Jochen KiX Supporter Registered: 2000-03-17 Posts: 6380 Loc: Stuttgart, Germany	Well, glad I could help by asking the right questions _________________________
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#210192 - 2015-03-31 02:07 PM Re: Rename multiple files [Re: Jochen]
Lonkero Lonkero KiX Master Guru Registered: 2001-06-05 Posts: 22346 Loc: OK	All files to same file? That does not sound anything like the original question but surely is simpler... _________________________ ! download KiXnet
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