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forquare1
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Hi all, Next week I start a new job. The job is to rename a few thousand files to conform to a naming standard. I know part of the naming standard will have the creation date, then a hyphen, then the project/file name, plus a load of optional 'flags' (stupid naming convention by the sounds of it). So, I know I can use a combination of ls, sed, awk and for each loops on a UNIX environment to do most of the work for me... Can I use these same tools under Windows? And will they work the same (output can be different, but flags/formatting would be annoying if different)? I think I'll be using some form of Windows XP, and doubt I'll be able to install anything apart from the base set of applications. Thanks for your help  Ben
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AlunD
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Don't know if its the best way of doing it but I'd use VB / VBA ( in office ) holding the variables in a spreadsheet etc.
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forquare1
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I don't think I need anything that complex  The way I see it, is something like this: Not sure if that'll work, not tested it yet, but it should work relatively well...But I've no idea if that would work under Windows 
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AlunD
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It was that bit I was thinking about. Not knowing how complex that would be to work out.
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forquare1
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Ahh yes  ...From the limited information I've been told so far, it looks like make of the optional flags won't be used for the majority of the files...So I was thinking about adding them in by hand after...
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Have a look at Windows PowerShell, an update for XP and part of Vista and Windows 7 (although I think it came as part of SP1 or SP2 with Vista).
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JJW009
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I'm afraid I'd probably use Excel / VBA. Import the detailed file list, and then it's easy to see what you're doing before you hit the "GO!" button.
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Fogmeister
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Have a look at the link in my "Finding files in a batch file" thread.
I did some fairly advanced stuff just using batch files.
Some very nice resources.
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forquare1
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Cheers Oli 
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Xenos
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You can get varieties of all your favourite shell script utilities for windows. I have some of those you've mentioned. Try http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/Maybe cygwin could be useful too?
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forquare1
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Thanks Xenos, until Monday I'm not sure if I can install new apps 
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EddArmitage
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I would have said cygwin, and then your favourite *nix commands. Pester people for it! A computer without a Bash is a computer that is unhappy.
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