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| Title: | AMIGA NOTES |
| Notice: | Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2 |
| Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE |
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| Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5378 |
| Total number of notes: | 38326 |
3718.0. "renaming a bunch of files" by NAC::BRANNON (value added) Wed Apr 25 1990 14:43
This may be a stupid question, but...
I'm trying to rename a bunch of files foo01.brush, foo02.brush, etc.
to foo01.br, foo02.br, etc.
Any suggestions on a good way to go about this?
I tried "with" and "foreach" but they substitute the full filename.
So then I tried paramenter substitution with a batch file.
execute r foo
where r contains:
.KEY <Name1>
rename Name1.brush Name1.br
(There was very little info in the A2000 manual to guess how to use
parameter substitution). This told me it couldn't rename Name1.brush.
sigh...any suggestions, hints, or solutions welcomed.
thanks,
dennis
| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 3718.1 | AmiShell | WHAMMY::SPODARYK | Binary Throttle | Wed Apr 25 1990 15:33 | 8 |
| I'm using the ARP Amishell (replaces the AmigaDOS shell), and this type
of command is real easy.
Shell> rename *.this *.that
Don't know about the standard CLI, though.
Steve
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| 3718.2 | Have you tried AREXX? | FENRYS::mwm | Mike (Real Amigas Have Keyboard Garages) Meyer | Wed Apr 25 1990 15:08 | 10 |
| /* Rename all the files that match a pattern - uses WShell */
/* typed in on the fly, don't trust this */
'list #?.brush | execio stem' files.
do i = 1 to files.0
say 'doing' files.i
'rename' files.i left(files.i, length(files.i - 3))
done
say "All done now."
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| 3718.3 | V1.3 Enhancer | DICKNS::MACDONALD | VAXELN - Realtime Software Pubs | Wed Apr 25 1990 16:23 | 1 |
| There is also a method listed in the V1.3 enhancer manual.
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