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increment filename
Name: mondial Date: May 8, 2007 at 12:56:01 Pacific OS: windows 95 CPU/Ram: 20 mb Product: ibm thinkpad
Comment:
Hi. Would like to know how to increment a filename. ie. file.txt to file01.txt, file02.txt, file03.txt etc. It's the same file with different names. Thanks.
Name: Mechanix2Go Date: May 8, 2007 at 13:56:02 Pacific
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Do you want to make copies or rename or what?
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Response Number 2
Name: mondial Date: May 9, 2007 at 07:34:17 Pacific
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I suppose rename will destroy, but I need to keep all copies, so copy it is. Thanks.
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Response Number 3
Name: Mechanix2Go Date: May 9, 2007 at 23:44:50 Pacific
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for %%N in (01 02 03) do copy file.txt file%%N.txt
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Response Number 4
Name: mondial Date: May 10, 2007 at 09:19:49 Pacific
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Thanks, looks easy now. Is this the only way even if you need to make ~70 copies?
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Response Number 5
Name: mondial Date: May 10, 2007 at 11:11:06 Pacific
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I figured it out. /l Thanks.
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Response Number 6
Name: matta Date: May 25, 2007 at 06:35:50 Pacific
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I would like to incrment the file extension at different times. When the file is created at 1:30 as <filename>.txt it could be renamed as <filename>.001. Then, when the file is created at 2:00 as <filename>.txt again it could be renamed as <filename>.002, etc... Any ideas?
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Response Number 7
Name: Mechanix2Go Date: May 25, 2007 at 13:16:01 Pacific
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You need a new thread.
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Response Number 8
Name: Fen_Li Date: June 29, 2007 at 14:32:35 Pacific
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@mondial
70~copies : for /l %%a (1,1,70) do copy "file.txt" "file%%~a.txt"
"still newbie kid"
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Response Number 9
Name: Mechanix2Go Date: June 30, 2007 at 02:09:06 Pacific
Reply:
There is no for /l in DOS.
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