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Special Forums Windows & DOS: Issues & Discussions DOS script to grab the first file in a dir and rename it Post 302304510 by ilan on Monday 6th of April 2009 03:48:07 PM
Old 04-06-2009
Hi Raghav,

DOS as well has a single command which does teh same job... see below e.g.


C:\Documents and Settings\ilango>echo . > abc1092.txt

C:\Documents and Settings\ilango>echo . > abc1022.txt

C:\Documents and Settings\ilango>echo . > abc1023.txt

C:\Documents and Settings\ilango>echo . > abc1024.txt

C:\Documents and Settings\ilango>for /F %i in ('dir /B abc*') do move /Y %i abc
.txt

C:\Documents and Settings\ilango>move /Y abc1022.txt abc.txt

C:\Documents and Settings\ilango>move /Y abc1023.txt abc.txt

C:\Documents and Settings\ilango>move /Y abc1024.txt abc.txt

C:\Documents and Settings\ilango>move /Y abc1092.txt abc.txt

C:\Documents and Settings\ilango>


/ilan

Last edited by ilan; 04-06-2009 at 04:48 PM.. Reason: cleanup in teh e.g.
 

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PCP(1)							   http://synce.sourceforge.net/						    PCP(1)

NAME
pcp - copy files SYNOPSIS
pcp [-d LEVEL] [-p DEVNAME] [-h] [:]SOURCE [[:]DESTINATION] DESCRIPTION
pcp copies a file on a device connected through SynCE or between a device connected through SynCE and host PC. Forward slashes ('/') in remote file names specified on the command line are converted to backward slashes (''). This tool must be run as the same user as the dccmd daemon. OPTIONS
-r Copy directories recursively. -d LEVEL Set debug log level: 0 - No logging (default) 1 - Errors only 2 - Errors and warnings 3 - Everything -p DEVNAME Use the device with the given name, instead of the default. -h Display help message. [:]SOURCE Full path to the source filename. When the filename is prefixed with a colon (':'), it will be treated as a remote filename, other- wise as a local filename. [:]DESTINATION Full path to the destination filename. When the filename is prefixed with a colon (':'), it will be treated as a remote filename, otherwise as a local filename. If this parameter is omitted and the source filename is local, the local file will be copied to a file with the same name in the "My Documents" directory on the device connected through SynCE. If this parameter is omitted and the source filename is remote, the remote file will be copied to a file with the same name in the current directory. EXAMPLES
Copy a file from host computer to remote device: pcp download/game.cab ":/Temporary Files/game.cab" Copy a file from remote device to host computer: pcp ":/My Documents/snore.wav" /tmp/snore.wav Copy a file from host computer to remote device into the "My Document" folder - you can leave off the last parameter: pcp "work/mytext.txt" Copy a file from remote device to host computer into the current directory - you can leave off the last parameter: pcp ":/My Documents/snore.wav" Copy a file from one location on the remote device to another: pcp ":/My Documents/important.pwi" ":/My Documents/important.backup.pwi" AUTHOR
This manual page was written by David Eriksson <twogood@users.sourceforge.net>. SEE ALSO
synce(1) pcp(1) pls(1) prm(1) pmkdir(1) prmdir(1) The SynCE project November 2002 PCP(1)
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