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Number   :  9127
Date     :  2004-11-03
Author   :  Garry Deane
Subject  :  Re: File rename revisited
Size(KB) :  1



--- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, "jeremyrector66"  
wrote:
> 
> I am using XXCopy for backup (big surprise). I take a daily
> full /backup and hourly incrementals (based on file time/date).
> I am finding that putting the hourly backups into /$HH$00
> folders is becoming a little bit unwieldy. I know that XXCopy
> does not do file renaming itself. I want to append
> "-/$YYMMDD$/$HH$00" to all files in a given directory tree
> and flatten the first directory layer (currently "/$HH$00").
> I have seen several scripts for renaming files (notably from
> Garry Deane), but sadly making sense of the regular 
> expressions used in these scripts is currently beyond me. :(
> 
> I need something that I can give a directory name as an
> argument that will append "/$YYMMDD$/$HH$00-" to all files
> found under that directory tree and flatten the first layer
> (currently in the format 1100, 1200, 1300, etc) of directory.
> 
> Any ideas?

I'm sure that using either a batch file and/or the /SL switch
will be able to do what you want. However I can't quite
figure out what you're after.

1. Are you talking about converting your existing backup
directories to the new system or changing the way your
backups work so that they follow the new system?

2. Can you give some examples of the existing directory
structure and what you want these to be after the batch
file runs e.g. does your source directory look like the
following?

\src\041103\file1.txt
\src\041103\dir1\file2.txt
\src\041103\0900\file1.txt
\src\041103\0900\dir1\file2.txt
\src\041103\1000\file1.txt
\src\041103\1000\dir1\file2.txt

And you want then to become:

\src\041103\file1.txt
\src\041103\dir1\file2.txt
\src\041103\0900-file1.txt
\src\041103\dir1\0900-file2.txt
\src\041103\1000-file1.txt
\src\041103\dir1\1000-file2.txt

Garry



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