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Number   :  9151
Date     :  2004-11-06
Author   :  Jeremy Rector
Subject  :  Re: File rename revisited
Size(KB) :  4



Hi John,

Thanks for the tweaking. This one is a little closer. It seem that 
some of my files are using the ` symbol in the filename (damn users), 
and I need to use a different delimiter. Out of the chute it works, 
just a little oddly. I think a little more tweaking on my end should 
fix it for good. I just need to find a valid character that my users 
aren't using to use as a delimiter and it should do the trick.
I have been working on the file extension problem, nice solution
I overlooked the filename.ext issue earlier, thanks for spotting and 
fixing that. (very elegent)
I may actually be developing a handle on this now. :)


Thanks Again!

--- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, "John Zeman"  wrote:
> 
> --- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, "Jeremy Rector" 
 
> wrote:
> > 
> > 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
> 
> 
> 
> A couple areas you may be running into trouble with Garry's batch 
> file. In this line in Step 2:
> 
> for /f "tokens=1-3,* delims=`" %%a in ('dir /b %tmp%') do (
> 
> Put " " around %tmp% (if your path contains spaces) so it becomes:
> 
> for /f "tokens=1-3,* delims=`" %%a in ('dir /b "%tmp%"') do (
> 
> 
> 
> The other place you are likely having trouble is near the very end 
> where you see these two lines:
> 
> ren "%tmp%\%fname%`%fdate%`%ftime%`%fpath%"
> "%fname%-%fdate%-%ftime%`%fpath%"
> 
> As Garry mentioned in his comment above it those two lines should 
be 
> combined on one line with a single space separating the two 
sections 
> enclosed in " "
> 
> 
> Now that being said, I did a little more tweaking to Garry's batch 
> file so the dates and times are inserted between the destination 
file 
> names and the file extensions. My "source", "temp", 
> and "destination" directories are different than Garry's so you'll 
> need to change those to the correct ones for you. But otherwise 
you 
> might give the following a try (The success of this, like Garry's, 
> assumes you have a 5 level deep source i.e. something like:
> 
> "C:\test folder\source\1105\1545\dir\".
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
> @echo off
> setlocal
> set src=C:\test folder\source
> 
> :: 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!&pause&goto :eof
> 
> :: The next is the dest path where the renamed files will go
> set dst=C:\test folder\destination
> 
> :: The next is a temporary dir for the part renamed files
> set tmp=C:\test folder\temp
> 
> :: 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=%%~na
> set fext=%%~xa
> set fdate=%%b
> set ftime=%%c
> set fpath=%%d
> call :rename
> )
> 
> 
> :: Step 2A. Move Files to DIR directory
> move "%tmp%\*.*" "%tmp%\%fpath%"
> 
> :: 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%\%fpath%\" "%dst%\%fpath%\" /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.
> 
> :: NEXT IS ONE LONG LINE
> ren "%tmp%\%fname%%fext%`%fdate%`%ftime%`%fpath%" "%fname%-%fdate%-%
> ftime%%fext%"
> 
> if not exist "%tmp%\%fpath%\." md "%tmp%\%fpath%"
> goto :eof



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