Shell Programming and Scripting

The code will work for the given format files.

The problem could be, you have the vbscript file also in the same folder. so the script takes the vbscript file and trying to find the ( "-" ) in the filename and it fails.

Make sure you only have the "Wind Attn... .wrl" files in that directory.

i added "on error resume next" to avoid the mid method alert.

Code:

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
objStartFolder = "C:\\TEST"
Set objFolder = objFSO.GetFolder(objStartFolder)
Set colFiles = objFolder.Files
For Each objFile in colFiles
    On error resume next
    startpos=instr(objFile.Name,"-")
    endpos=instr(objFile.Name,".wrl")
    Number=(Mid(objFile.Name,startpos+2,(endpos-(startpos+2))))
    Number=Number+60
    Fpart=Mid(objFile.Name,1,startpos)
    Spart=Mid(objFile.Name,(Len(objFile.Name)-3),4)
    newFileName=Fpart & " " & Number & Spart
    wscript.echo "OLD FILE : " & objFile.Name & "    NEW FILE : " & newFileName
    FileName = objStartFolder & "\\" & objFile.Name 
    newFileName = objStartFolder & "\\" & newFileName
    objFSO.moveFile FileName, newFileName
Next

cygwin works fine for me on windows 7 both 64 and 32 bit. What sort of issues are you getting with the install?

Itkamaraj, I thought you never replied and only today found your post in page 2. I almost missed it. You were right, I only had to leave the .vbs in a different folder, and with the new code, it works flawlessly. I am a complete newbie to VBscript and your instructions to use the script were very clear. Now you have inspired me to delve deeper into it since I feel bad that I am using it without knowing what exactly it is doing.

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Chubler,

I am sorry for quoting incorrect information earlier. I was actually installing cygwin on XP Professional x64 when I checked, not sure why I thought it was Windows 7 all along.
I tried to run the setup.exe file from Cygwin to install cygwin. After a minute, it prompts me to choose a download site, but the list of available download sites is empty. However there is an option to add User URL. When I try to add mirror lists available on the site on a different webpage, it doesnt like any site that I give it. It just hangs there and does nothing.
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In the meanwhile, I have obtained an online unix shell account from irc.sdf.org, but I cannot access most of the commands unless I 'activate' the account, and I have figure that part and hopefully I will then have an online account for a couple years, which is great.

Sounds like it's having trouble getting to the internet, take careful note of the "Select Your Internet Connection" dialog. You many have to select "Use HTTP/FTP Proxy" and manually setup your Proxy server (although "Use Internet Explorer Proxy Settings" has always worked for me, even on authenticated Proxies).