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Number   :  9148
Date     :  2004-11-05
Author   :  Jeremy Rector
Subject  :  Re: File rename revisited
Size(KB) :  4



Hi Garry,

Step 2 keeps failing, and I have gone over it with a fine tooth comb. 
I stuck in break-points to troubleshoot, I get a file not found error 
at step 2. The xxcopy portions of this script work exactly the way 
that they are supposed to. Any ideas? I am running under Win2k3.

Thanks

--- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, "Garry Deane"  wrote:
> 
> --- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, "jeremyrector66" 
 
> wrote:
> > 
> > Thanks for your response Garry. I have seen some of your
> > other scripts for renaming files, but I know way too little
> > about the sort of regular expression that you used. I plan
> > on making this a learning experience.
> > 
> > 1. I am actually looking to do both. All of my current backups
> > use this scheme. Moving forward, I can do this to them.
> > As time allows I can uncompress and convert my archives
> > as well.
> 
> OK. I've worked out a batch file which converts your existing
> backup directories which are as listed below. You should be
> able to use similar xxcopy commands when you convert to the
> new backup scheme.
> 
> > 2. Very close. My source looks like this.
> > 
> > \src\041103\0900\dir1\file1.txt
> > \src\041103\0900\dir1\file2.txt
> > \src\041103\1000\dir1\file1.txt
> > \src\041103\1000\dir1\file2.txt
> > \src\041103\1000\dir1\subdir1\file1.txt
> > 
> > and I want it to look like this
> > 
> > \src\dir1\file1-041103-0900.txt
> > \src\dir1\file2-041103-0900.txt
> > \src\dir1\file1-041103-1000.txt
> > \src\dir1\file2-041103-1000.txt
> > \src\dir1\subdir1\file1-041103-1000.txt
> > 
> > This lets me use a single directory tree instead of multiples
> > for dates and times. File versions sort out by date/time and
> > I can see at a glance how many revisions there are, and
> > recover the correct one without having to search through
> > a separate tree for each day and seperate sub-tree's for
> > every hour.
> > 
> > My current system seemed like a good idea at the time.
> 
> OK, I think that example explains it clearly. I'd probably
> use a batch file to construct a variable which converts say
> \src\041103\0900\dir1\file1.txt to
> \src\dir1\file1-041103-0900.txt
> Then I'd just use a MOVE command for each file using these
> variables. However this could get pretty complex depending
> on the actual \src\ name and handling file names and paths
> with spaces.
> 
> Since you aren't experienced with batch, the following
> is a simpler approach. It mostly uses xxcopy commands 
> and fairly standard batch code. It is quite versatile however
> it does require 2 lots of file copies so may not be too
> efficient if you have a large amount of data to deal with.
> 
> Note that the following code is not as large as it looks
> because I've commented the steps involved (lines starting
> with :: are comments) so that you can follow the process
> and modify it to your own needs.
> 
> Garry
> 
> @echo off
> setlocal
> set src=d:\test\src dir
> :: The above is the source path which has the yymmdd subdirs
> :: If you want to pass this as a parameter, use:
> :: set src=%~1
> if not exist "%src%" echo Source not found!&goto :eof
> :: The next is the dest path where the renamed files will go
> set dst=d:\test\dst dir
> :: The next is a temporary dir for the part renamed files
> set tmp=d:\test\tmp
> :: Clean out any files in the temporary path
> rd /s/q %tmp% 2>nul
> :: Step 1. Gather files into the temp dir with the path
> :: appended to the file name. Files end up with a name like
> :: filename.ext`yyymmmdd`hh00`origpath
> xxcopy "%src%\" "%tmp%\" /sr
> :: Step 2. Split each filename into its components of
> :: filename, yyymmmdd, hh00, origpath then rename them to
> :: filename-yyymmmdd-hh00`origpath
> :: See FOR /? for an explanation of the FOR command
> for /f "tokens=1-3,* delims=`" %%a in ('dir /b %tmp%') do (
> set fname=%%a
> set fdate=%%b
> set ftime=%%c
> set fpath=%%d
> call :rename
> )
> :: Step 3. Rebuild the files using the original path
> :: in the dest directory and remove after copy
> :: Remove the /rcy if you want to view the renamed
> :: intermediate files in the temp directory
> xxcopy "%tmp%\" "%dst%\" /srr/rcy/y/pd0/ed
> goto :eof
> 
> :rename
> :: This renames the files in the temp directory using the
> :: extracted components of the gathered filename.
> :: Note the the next line is wrapped. Everything before
> :: the "goto :eof" should be on one line.
> ren "%tmp%\%fname%`%fdate%`%ftime%`%fpath%"
> "%fname%-%fdate%-%ftime%`%fpath%"
> goto :eof



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