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Number   :  9167
Date     :  2004-11-08
Author   :  Jeremy Rector
Subject  :  Re: File rename revisited
Size(KB) :  3



--- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, "Garry Deane"  wrote:
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> --- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, "Jeremy Rector"=20
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> wrote:
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> > Hi John,
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> > 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. :)
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> > Thanks Again!
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> Xxcopy does allow you to specify an alternate separator
> character using /s e.g. /s_. Unfortunately this isn't
> going to help because:
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> 1. Xxcopy only accepts a limited number of characters and
> these are probably more commonly found than ` and you can't
> use say ALT [170] =3D =AC or similar high bit characters which
> wouldn't be found in the file names.
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> 2. It seems that Xxcopy only uses ` when rebuilding the
> directories with /srr e.g. using /srr/s_ doesn't work.
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> Short of abandoning xxcopy and using a pure batch approach,
> the best I can think of is to rename the files in the source
> which contain a ` with an alternate character such as =AC.
> After the renaming with the date-time field is complete,
> rename them back with the ` character. Here's an example
> of how you can do the rename (assuming that it's only file
> names that contain ` and not directories).
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> @echo off
> setlocal
> set src=3Dd:\test\src dir
> for /f "tokens=3D*" %%a in ('dir /s/b "%src%\*`*"') do (
> set fqname=3D%%a
> set fname=3D%%nxa
> call :replace`
> )
> goto :eof
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> :replace`
> ren "%fqname%" "%fname:`=3D=AC%"
> goto :eof
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> The character I've used above is ALT [170] because my editor
> handles that character with grace but not some others. You
> can use anything unique that's convenient.
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> Note however that renaming files in batch can be fraught with
> problems because batch files treat fairly commonly used
> characters such as % ^ ! " ( ) as special batch characters.
> If your files containing ` also contain these batch characters,
> you might run into problems. I haven't tested all these but I
> know that % in particular is next to impossible to deal with.
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> If this proves too difficult, there are freely available
> file renamers that can probably do the job.
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> Garry

Thanks for the feedback Garry. Alas, I spent some time fiddling with=20
alternate characters, and it does indeed look as though my options=20
are limited. As you can imagine, I have users who regularly use all=20
sorts of characters in their file and directory names. I am looking=20
into some ways to do this with pure batch.

Thanks for all of your help. :)



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