DOS question

[Rajesh R Subramanian]

+1 for BRU! It works great. :)

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[leppie]

The answer as always: Total Commander. It has a very nice file renaming tool. :)

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[megaadam]

Bingo! :) When I first saw (Windows a.k.a.) Total Commander, I used to sneer at it. But that was a long time ago. Now, I never look at whatsitcalled included with windows.

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[David Crow]

Russell' wrote:

any expert on the 'old' DOS?

Looks to be some good stuff here.

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[puromtec1]

Its home page is classic. It has the old style page counter, mentions Windows 3.1 and has a picture of a floppy disk on it.

[Snowman58]

Flash Renamer - http://www.rlvision.com/downloads.asp[^]

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[Lost User]

Kind of old school, but for tasks like this, I'll fire up my spreadsheet program of choice and build individual statements using simple formulas and cell formatting. Once you have a column of commands, you can copy them and paste them into the command prompt and they'll run one at a time. Not as cool as PowerShell or some of the other better answers, but it gets the job done.

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[Larry G Grimes]

Joe has the best answer on this one.

[Mike Winiberg]

Hmm, multiple tools available really, depending on budget and the amount of effort you want to use: ZTREE (remember Xtree for DOS), ZTree is based on this, is still being developed and sold, and has none of the memory limits of the old DOS Xtree, seing as how its a Windows 32bit console app. Otherwise look at XXCOPY if you want something that runs in a window, DirectoryOpus or Powerdesk for native windows GUI. If you want 'free', then Powershell would be a good start, or one of the many 'Norton Commander' clones out there.

[dchuks]

Use the following script. It does the following: For each *.txt file in the current directory... 1. remove the first character, assuming it is an L 2. add 00 to the front 3. extracts the last 7 characters XXX.txt, where XXX is the original number padded with zeros 4. adds the L back to the front 5. does the rename

@echo off
setlocal ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
for /f "delims=" %%a in ('dir /b *.txt') do (
(set i=%%a)
(set i=00!i:~1,100!)
(set i=L!i:~-7!)
echo rename "%%a" to "!i!"
rename "%%a" "!i!"
)
endlocal

[Naruki 0]

At least, I think that's what it does, so surely they named it that. Same initials, anyway. Total Commander is da bomb, baby. Select the files (or folders) to rename, press CTRL-M for the rename dialog, and bask in the options. Also note the preview before committing changes.

Narf.

[Naruki 0]

No he doesn't. leppie does. :-)

Narf.

[thinicezero]

I like that!

[Marc Greiner at home]

You could try Renamer[^] (free product). For example, I use it to rename my camcorder videos with a filename that equals the video timestamp (YYY-MM-DD HH-MM-SS.MTS)

[Victor Ulloa]

Mike is right, for jobs like these I can't live without ZTree. You can insert, delete portions of the name, insert an autoincrement (with or without the leading zeroes), etc.

[Simon Capewell]

I use either Stexbar[^] or Shell Renamer[^]

[Gary Wheeler]

for /I %I in (1,1,9) do ren L%I.txt L00%I.txt
for /I %I in (10,1,99) do ren L%I.txt L0%I.txt

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[MatthewPainter]

Up till a couple of months ago I would have written this in VBScript no sweat but these days I am writing everything in PowerShell to get my skills up. Thanks for the challenge.

# Make 100 test files (create dir structure first)
1..100 | % ($_){New-Item "c:\scripts\Lfiles\L$_.txt" -type file}

# Rename all files to specification (remove -whatif switch to make it live)
Get-ChildItem c:\scripts\Lfiles | % ($_){rename-item -path $_.fullname -newname (($_.basename -replace "[0-9]", "")+("{0:000}" -f [int]($_.basename -replace "[^0-9]", ""))+($_.extension)) -whatif}

[brimars]

Assuming Russell is actually using DOS (we still have machinery running DOS exclusively on 386 and 486 machines), I think Henry's idea is probably the best place to start. The DOS ? and * wildcard characters don't always give exactly the expected results.

[TheF0rmatter]

For files with numbers less than 10: FOR /L %F in (1,1,9) DO REN L%F.txt L00%F.txt For files with numbers from 10 to 99: FOR /L %F IN (10,1,99) DO REN L%F.txt L0%F.txt You could expand this out with a check to make sure the file exists: FOR /L %F IN (1,1,9 DO IF EXIST L%F.txt REN L%F.txt L00%F.txt