Please help! I want to rename hundreds of files from my local directory by getting a string of text from the file. For example: Filename: tsa012835182.txt I want to rename it to include the text from within the file. The file contains several lines of text 15-05-09 003094 0610 15-05-09 003094 0715 15-05-09 003094 1715 15-05-09 003094 1807 I want to get 15-05-09 the first line in column 1, and then rename it as the name of the file. The final filename should look like: TSA01-14-05-09.txt Then proceed with the next file. The 15-05-09 text is different in each file but in same location (column 1). The final filename for this one should look like: tsa0115-05-09.txt

if you have Python on windows import glob,os os.chdir(os.path.join("C:\\","test")) for files in glob.glob("tsa*txt"): try: f=open(files) except Exception,e: print e else: filename = f.readline().strip().split()[0] f.close() newfilename = files[:5]+filename+".txt" try: os.rename(files,newfilename) except Exception,e: print e save the above as myscript.py and on command line c:\test> python myscript.py

Sorry I don't have python installed. I have tried to run a script which was there for a similar requirement on the forum, but could not getthe same. The difference being, my txt file is tab delimited and the file has to be named useing the 1 column and not the 4th and the 5th.