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From: mwm@violet.berkeley.edu (Mike (With friends like these, who needs hallucinations) Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: RENAMING FILES
Message-ID: <1989Dec5.044908.8880@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 5 Dec 89 04:49:08 GMT
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In article <17628@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> blech@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Michael Blechner) writes:
<I need to rename 200+ files quickly and easily, i.e. not one at a time
<I have files mike.1.image through mike.200.image (sculpt animate files)
<and files mike2.1.image through mike2.200.image. I want to rename all mike2
<files to mike files mike.201.image through mike.400.image.  I cant seem to find
<an easy way to do this?  Please help me out I have 5 different sets of 200+
<files to change.  Thanx. Please Email.

The following near trivial ARexx script ought to do it if you run the
output of "list quick mike2#?" through it as standard input. The
format option to list isn't quite up to it. Parameterizing it to do
different files or different offset ought to be straightforward.

	<mike

/* */
address command		/* Only if you don't have WSHell */

do forever
	parse pull "."number"."
	if number == "" then exit
	'rename mike2.'number'.image mike.' || number+200 || '.image
	end
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