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Renaming a batch of files, To rename muliple files to 8 characters

rwaldron	21 Aug, 2008 - 08:10 AM Post #1
New D.I.C Head Joined: 31 Mar, 2008 Posts: 10	Hi all, I am looking to write some code that will read files in a specific folder and rename them in order to be below 8 charcaters... say I have a folder c:\files\ and within it I have some inp files Sample files are SIG0063501.INP , SIG0066251.INP I want to rename these to S0063501.INP , S0066251.INP. Essentially dropping the IG of all files read so that they are then 8 characters long. Can someone please help me. Thx, Ray..
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Amadeus	21 Aug, 2008 - 08:52 AM Post #2
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rwaldron	22 Aug, 2008 - 01:16 AM Post #3
New D.I.C Head Joined: 31 Mar, 2008 Posts: 10	Hiya, Using windows.. Looking for something in say c# I have a Bat file that seems to do the trick. This will Take the SI off from the start of the file :: renamer.bat @echo off :main for %%f in (SIG*.inp) do call :renamer %%f goto :eof :renamer set old=%1 ren %1 %old:~2,12% :: end
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