Re-naming all files in a folder?

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Re-naming all files in a folder? #92655 03/08/04 04:31 PM
Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 257 A alkahol1k OP Fjord artisan
OP alkahol1k Fjord artisan A Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 257	Is it possible to rename all files in one folder? If so i'd like to take a certain string out for example "-abc'. Would this freeze my mirc and computer ?

Re: Re-naming all files in a folder? #92656 03/08/04 04:39 PM
Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 2,327 T tidy_trax Hoopy frood
tidy_trax Hoopy frood T Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 2,327	.echo -q $findfile(folder,.,0,.rename $1- $remove($1-,-abc)) New username: hixxy

Re: Re-naming all files in a folder? #92657 03/08/04 04:51 PM
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OP alkahol1k Fjord artisan A Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 257	That returns '399' which is how many files i have in that folder

Re: Re-naming all files in a folder? #92658 03/08/04 04:53 PM
Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 257 A alkahol1k OP Fjord artisan
OP alkahol1k Fjord artisan A Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 257	If i had textfile1-abc.txt textfile2-abc.txt textfile3-abc.txt picture-abc.jpeg how do i rename them all in one step while taking out just '-abc' in all 4 files

Re: Re-naming all files in a folder? #92659 03/08/04 05:04 PM
Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 2,327 T tidy_trax Hoopy frood
tidy_trax Hoopy frood T Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 2,327	Have you even tried it? Here's an example: //write a-abc.txt \| write b-abc.txt \| write c-abc.txt \| .echo -q $findfile($mircdir,.,0,.rename $+(",$1-") $remove($+(",$1-"),-abc)) New username: hixxy

Re: Re-naming all files in a folder? #92660 03/08/04 05:44 PM
Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 124 T TonyTheTiger Vogon poet
TonyTheTiger Vogon poet T Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 124	he probably already renamed them when he tried it lol. maybe should've made it rename instead of .rename so he could see it happening.

Re: Re-naming all files in a folder? #92661 03/08/04 07:04 PM
Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 257 A alkahol1k OP Fjord artisan
OP alkahol1k Fjord artisan A Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 257	yeah that worked out great, the problem i could see happening is if there was lets say 2000 files in the folder it might freeze

Re: Re-naming all files in a folder? #92662 03/08/04 07:57 PM
Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 37 C cgfiend Ameglian cow
cgfiend Ameglian cow C Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 37	In a situation like that, I would think he would put something like, "Renaming files... please be patient." and then "Done." when the renaming is complete. Sure, it'll lock up the system, but the only other way I know to do it quicker is to use a DLL, but still you're going to have a few seconds of freezing on a long file list.

Re: Re-naming all files in a folder? #92663 04/08/04 12:51 AM
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Online Hoopy frood O Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 1,922	$dllcall() might come in handy

Re: Re-naming all files in a folder? #92664 04/08/04 12:56 AM
Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 257 A alkahol1k OP Fjord artisan
OP alkahol1k Fjord artisan A Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 257	what dll would you be using for that ?

Re: Re-naming all files in a folder? #92665 04/08/04 01:21 AM
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Online Hoopy frood O Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 1,922	There are some filesystem dlls at mircscripts.org, but as far as I know none of them support mass-renaming. I would stick to $findfile().

Re: Re-naming all files in a folder? #92666 04/08/04 03:18 AM
Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 257 A alkahol1k OP Fjord artisan
OP alkahol1k Fjord artisan A Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 257	i'm curious as to why you suggested $dllcall then

Re: Re-naming all files in a folder? #92667 04/08/04 01:18 PM
Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 994 C CtrlAltDel Hoopy frood
CtrlAltDel Hoopy frood C Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 994	Why not use an external application like DMEXMenu (free) or the inexpensive ($15 USD) Better File Rename ? Neither of which takes more than 10 seconds when changing the names of over 10,000 files on my computer (thus no noticable freeze/lockup). The latter will change folder names, as well as sub folders and files. I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed person.

Re: Re-naming all files in a folder? #92668 04/08/04 04:09 PM
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Online Hoopy frood O Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 1,922	Quote: i'm curious as to why you suggested $dllcall then It was in reply to cgfiend, who said that even when you use a DLL you'll have to bear a mIRC freeze. This would be true if you were to use $dll(), but now $dllcall() allows you to run the DLL in a separate thread and let mIRC continue normally. For example, $dllcall(file.dll, [color:blue]mass_ren_done, MassRename, c:\folder\)[/color] would return immediately to the script, leaving the renaming process in the background. When it's done, mIRC will call the custom alias you specified, "mass_ren_done".

Re: Re-naming all files in a folder? #92669 05/08/04 01:29 AM
Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 257 A alkahol1k OP Fjord artisan
OP alkahol1k Fjord artisan A Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 257	thanks for the help above tidy_trax posted a helpful alias but what if i'd just like to remove the '-abc' and not add a "." Is this possible ?

Re: Re-naming all files in a folder? #92670 05/08/04 02:05 AM

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Use your OS

Here's an NT solution, I don't know 9x syntax for this. ;p

Code:

alias renall {
  if !$isdir($2-) { echo -a * /renall &lt;string&gt; &lt;path&gt; | return }
  var %a = $1,%b
  .fopen -no renall renall.cmd
  if !$ferr { %b = $findfile($2,$+(*,%a,*),0,renal $+(%a,;,$1-)) }
  .fclose renall
  if $file(renall.cmd) { run -n renall.cmd | echo -a * Renaming %b files. }
  .timerrenall 1 5 .remove renall.cmd
}
alias -l renal { 
  tokenize 59 $1-
  .fwrite -n renall rename $+(",$2," ",$remove($nopath($2),$1),")  
}

Example: /renall -abc X:\path\to\files