Batch file rename?

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I have a client with a BUNCH of files. Hundreds. The first name with
an underscore then the last name dot jpg. Is there a way to get it
from henry_smith.jpg to smith_henry.jpg? Any sort of batch program?
 
Justin said:
I have a client with a BUNCH of files. Hundreds. The first name with
an underscore then the last name dot jpg. Is there a way to get it
from henry_smith.jpg to smith_henry.jpg? Any sort of batch program?
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Of course! Anything worth doing can be done in batch.

(see alt.msdos.batch.nt for nt/2k/xp methods; alt.msdos.batch for DOS/9x
methods and microsoft.public.win2000.cmdprompt)

As for your problem :-

for /f %%i in ('dir /a:-d/b *_*.jpg') do for /f "tokens=1,2delims=_." %%j in
("%%i") do ECHO ren %%i %%k_%%j.jpg

(all as one batch line. Reduce each "%%" to "%" if executed directly from
the prompt)
(the "ECHO" command is included for you to verify that the operation is
kosher. remove the "ECHO" to execute the rename)

HTH

....Bill
 
billious said:
Of course! Anything worth doing can be done in batch.

(see alt.msdos.batch.nt for nt/2k/xp methods; alt.msdos.batch for DOS/9x
methods and microsoft.public.win2000.cmdprompt)

As for your problem :-

for /f %%i in ('dir /a:-d/b *_*.jpg') do for /f "tokens=1,2delims=_." %%j in
("%%i") do ECHO ren %%i %%k_%%j.jpg

(all as one batch line. Reduce each "%%" to "%" if executed directly from
the prompt)
(the "ECHO" command is included for you to verify that the operation is
kosher. remove the "ECHO" to execute the rename)

HTH

...Bill
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DOH!

It turns out that won't work. The client has somethign else which he
neglected to tell me.
example richard_parks_123.jpg
has to end up parks_richard_123.jpg the 123 is a variable number of
digits. Grrr... I'm adding another two hours to this guy's bill.
 
Justin said:
DOH!

It turns out that won't work. The client has somethign else which he
neglected to tell me.
example richard_parks_123.jpg
has to end up parks_richard_123.jpg the 123 is a variable number of
digits. Grrr... I'm adding another two hours to this guy's bill.
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Two hours billing for a 5 minute change to a batch file someone else
wrote for you for free?

Remind me not to hire you!
 
Justin said:
SNIP<
It turns out that won't work. The client has somethign else which he
neglected to tell me.
example richard_parks_123.jpg
has to end up parks_richard_123.jpg the 123 is a variable number of
digits. Grrr... I'm adding another two hours to this guy's bill.
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You can program in Perl on a windows PC. In Linux, I would do

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
opendir(DIR,'./your_directory/') or die;
@bar = readdir(DIR);
foreach $file (@bar) {
if (-d $file) {
#skip the dots
} else {
@names=split('_',$file);
# now you have the file name in $names[0]='parks'
$names[1]='richard'
$names[2]='123.rpg'

So, if you want to reverse the name,

move or copy

system("mv $file $names[1]_$names[0]_$names[2]");
}
}

Oh, you definitely want to have the correct path information in that
system call to mv.

HTH,

Andy C.(never #)
 
Armin said:
Two hours billing for a 5 minute change to a batch file someone else
wrote for you for free?

Remind me not to hire you!
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Figure of speech. Its routine that clients don't give me all the
information, then when I try somethign it doesn't work so its my fault.
If only I were a Betaziod...
 
Justin said:
DOH!

It turns out that won't work. The client has somethign else which he
neglected to tell me.
example richard_parks_123.jpg
has to end up parks_richard_123.jpg the 123 is a variable number of
digits. Grrr... I'm adding another two hours to this guy's bill.
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for /f %%i in ('dir /a:-d/b *_*.jpg') do for /f "tokens=1,2,3delims=_." %%j
in ("%%i") do if /i "%%l"==".jpg" (echo ren %%i %%k_%%j.jpg) else (echo ren
%%i %%k_%%j_%%l.jpg)

(still one line...)

I'd send you my virtual bill too...been out-of-work more than 4 years now
.... :(

....Bill - or not :)
 
Justin said:
I have a client with a BUNCH of files. Hundreds. The first name with
an underscore then the last name dot jpg. Is there a way to get it
from henry_smith.jpg to smith_henry.jpg? Any sort of batch program?
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Take a look at IrfanView (www.irfanview.com). IIRC, it has a bulit-in
batch renaming facility that may do what you want. Even if it doesn't,
it's a great, free, graphics file viewer.
 
billious said:
for /f %%i in ('dir /a:-d/b *_*.jpg') do for /f "tokens=1,2,3delims=_." %%j
in ("%%i") do if /i "%%l"==".jpg" (echo ren %%i %%k_%%j.jpg) else (echo ren
%%i %%k_%%j_%%l.jpg)

(still one line...)

I'd send you my virtual bill too...been out-of-work more than 4 years now
... :(

...Bill - or not :)
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I'll send virtual money... Just kidding.
That seems to have worked, I tried it on my system and it worked fine.
Now I'm sending it to the technically inept client.
 
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