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Rename file based on content
Name: eyals Date: June 30, 2009 at 22:40:32 Pacific OS: Windows XP/DOS Subcategory: Batch
Comment:
Hello,
I have 3500 HTML (plain text) files that I want to rename according to the content in line # 4 inside each file from position 30 to 47.
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