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Renaming a batch of files

 
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Renaming a batch of files, To rename muliple files to 8 characters
rwaldron
21 Aug, 2008 - 08:10 AM
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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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RE: Renaming A Batch Of Files
21 Aug, 2008 - 08:52 AM
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22 Aug, 2008 - 01:16 AM
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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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