Rename CMD

[rstum2005]

All I would like to do is , in the cmd prompt window "Rename" a file and place todays date in the file name.

thanks.

 

[EBGreen]

Rename Test.txt "Test 12-2-05.txt"

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[rstum2005]

Sorry,

Id like to use something like a getdate() or Date function to do this.

 

[rstum2005]

anyone else?

 

[EBGreen]

Aah...Can't be done as a single line at the command prompt afaik. You could do it in a batch file or as a VBScript however.

[red]"... isn't sanity really just a one trick pony anyway?! I mean, all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you are good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit!" - The Tick[/red]

 

[rstum2005]

that would be fine any clue of how to do such a thing?

the file name will always be the same name at first and id like to change the name to the same name + date.

for example.

Report.xls

Report 12-02-2005.xls

or even
Report12022005

I just dont want my process to over write the file thats why i need to incorporate somthing to change the name to a distinct name.

Thanks

 

[trollacious]

What scripting or programming language are you going to use?

Lee

 

[rstum2005]

oops ... a batch file

 

[EBGreen]

This will work with some caveats:
1) There can be no periods in the path or filname except for the one seperating the file name from the file extension.
2) There cannot be a file named date.txt in the same directory as the batch file.
3) There cannot be a file named name.txt in the same directory as the batch file.
4) You cannot have an environment variable named TEMPFILENAME in your environment.

@Echo off
date /t > date.txt
echo %1% > name.txt
for /F "tokens=1 delims=." %%i in (name.txt) do Set TEMPFILENAME=%%i
for /F "eol=; tokens=2,3,4 delims=/ " %%i in (date.txt) do Set TEMPFILENAME=%TEMPFILENAME%%%i-%%j-%%k
for /F "tokens=2 delims=." %%i in (name.txt) do Set TEMPFILENAME=%TEMPFILENAME%.%%i
rename %1 %TEMPFILENAME%
Del date.txt
Del name.txt
Set TEMPFILENAME=

[red]"... isn't sanity really just a one trick pony anyway?! I mean, all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you are good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit!" - The Tick[/red]

 

[rstum2005]

ok so i changed name.txt to my filename? its not working for me.

 

[EBGreen]

No you call the bat passing it the name of the file you want to rename. So for instance if you saved that code in a file named DateName.bat and you wanted to rename a file named foo.txt, then you would use this command line:

DateName.bat Foo.txt

[red]"... isn't sanity really just a one trick pony anyway?! I mean, all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you are good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit!" - The Tick[/red]

 

[rstum2005]

Hey thanks a bunch man. It does work great but ive got still another question. Im running this file accross the network on a server and the file I want to rename is on my local. I tried typing cd \\\\mycomputer and of coarse that did not work. any clues there?

 

[EBGreen]

The first thing that I would sugest is to just run the bat locally. Its not like it takes up a lot of room. Next I would suggest using \\mycomputer instead of \\\\mycomputer.

[red]"... isn't sanity really just a one trick pony anyway?! I mean, all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you are good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit!" - The Tick[/red]

 

[rstum2005]

I have done all of which you have said? I am looking into this another way though.

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1159538&page=1

Thanks