Subj : Re: Howto copy set of files with rename to shorter name?
To   : Steve
From : Klaus Meinhard
Date : Sat Mar 09 2002 11:26 pm

From: "Klaus Meinhard" <K_Meinhard@t-online.de>

Steve,

> In 4NT, 4DOS, and TakeCommand, even cleaner is:
>
> for %f in ( longname-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9].txt ) rename %f
> F00-%@instr[0,-5,%@name[%f]].txt

If we're passing judgments (cleaner), the replacement of @instr with

  for %f in ( longname-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9].txt ) rename %f
F00-%@right[5,%@name[%f]].txt

(in 4dos since V. 6) comes to mind :-)

Note that the wildcard construction above is only necessary if there are 
actually other files with names starting with "longname" in that directory.

--
Viele Gr��e, best regards,

*Klaus Meinhard*
07�36'57" East  53�07'52" North
Author of the 4XBTM batch collection at http://www.4xbtm.de

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