Hi, I need help writing a bat file that will rename a picture that is dragged onto/into it and rename it as the date (i.e. if the date is April 2, 2008, the picture will be called 040208.jpg). I have been trying to look up how to write something like this, but I don't know about how to do so. Thank you in advance!

i presume that the date you describe is the system date, and not the date time stamp of the file itself. if you can download and install gawk from here: save the code below as script.awk BEGIN{ date=systime() newfilename=strftime("%m%d%y",date)".jpg" cmd = "move "file" "newfilename system(cmd) } on the command line c:\test> gawk -f change.awk -v file="file_to change.jpg" or if you are actually getting the date from the file itself NR>5{ date=$1 file=$NF n=split(date,d,"/") newfilename=d[1]d[2]substr(d[3],1,2)".jpg" cmd = "move "file" "newfilename print cmd #system(cmd) #uncomment to use exit } usage: c:\test> dir file_to_change.jpg | gawk -f script.awk

To use a BAT you need to know the date layout. ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2