rename

How can I change what App.config gets renamed to?

I have an App.config file in my project that gets copied to NameOfExe.exe.config at build time. The users of my software will need to edit this file at times, but they may not be familiar with how .NET does things (or how computers do things in general). I think using a file name like that might confuse them, with the .exe.config extensi...

git: rename remote branch

I have the branch master which tracks the remote branch origin/master. I want to rename them to "master-old" both locally and remote. Is that possible? For other users who tracked origin/master (and who updated their local master branch always just via 'git pull'), what whould happen after I renamed the renamed the remote branch. Would ...

Handling renames: svn vs. git vs. mercurial

How do each of these vcs handle renames? I have found a lot of contradicting information stating that git tracks loc's instead of files, renames would therfefore have no meaning for it. ...

Rename image files on server directory

I need some help in renaming some images in a directory located at /images/graphicsLib/. All image names in /graphicsLib/ have naming convention that looks like this: 400-60947.jpg. We call the "400" part of the file the prefix and we call the "60957" part the suffix. The entire file name we call the sku. So if you saw the contents o...

Renaming Directory with same name different case

I am trying to rename a directory in c# to a name that is the same only with differing case. For example: f:\test to f:\TEST I have tried this code: var directory = new DirectoryInfo("f:\\test"); directory.MoveTo("f:\\TEST"); and I get a IOException - Source and destination path must be different. I have also tried Directory.Move()...

Rename a bunch of files in debian

I have thousands of files that I need to rename with the following format. 2008:09:18:17:45:48-alfanumeric-alfanumeric.wav the first part is a date. Ex. 2008:09:18:17:45:48-703-s.wav A want to rename it to: 20080918.174548.703.s.wav Basically to remove the ':' and to make a more human readable format and easier to split. I know that...

Ability of SHFileOperation

Does SHFileOperation support to move and rename files at the same time? I'v got a set of files : c:\ f1.bmp f2.bmp f3.bmp f4.bmp I want to move each to new folder, and rename them: d:\ b1.bmp b2.bmp b3.bmp b4.bmp Can I use SHFileOperation? and just do it once? Many thanks! ...

Rename file with uploadify

Hi there I'm using uploadify with asp and I want to change the file name to the current date+time when the file is complete. Is there any way to do it? this is my JS code: $('#fileUploadJquery').uploadify({ 'uploader' : 'Shared/ClientScripts/Uploadify/uploadify.swf', 'cancelImg' : 'Shared/ClientScripts/Uploadify/cancel.p...

Using Powershell to recursively rename directories using a lookup file

I need to rename a lot of directories and their sub directories. I have a csv file which contains the old directory names and the required new name. 1,blah,old_name1,new_name2,wibble 2,foo,old_name2,new_name2,bar 3,john,old_name3,new_name3,paul 4,george,old_name4,new_name4,ringo Note that some of the directory names are old_name1-m...

Python: How to replace dashes in filenames?

The question is related to the answer about renaming files recursively. The code, changed to replace dashes, does not work with cases such as: ./Beginners Tools/Hello's -Trojans-/bif43243 ./Linux/Nux Col - 1 Works (TEX & Pdf) - T'eouhsoe & More (33323 - 34432) ./Git/peepcode-git-mov/c6_branch_merge.mov ./haskell/OS 2007 - T aoue ./B Si...

How can I rename a file in Java?

My purpose is to rename one file. What I'm doing is: I'm searching a particular string in a text file. Among So many files and if that particular text is found then I want rename that text file with a given string. Here is what I have tried: String opcode="OPCODES"; // String that I want to search. File file = new File("D:\\C...

git: Move a file/directory but still merge changes easily?

I've read in various FAQs that git doesn't explicitly track renames/moves, preferring to look for identical (or in some situations similar?) files. That's great, but will it cope with this situation: a friend's remote repository has a new feature (i18n) involving some new files at debian/po/*.po. I have my own fork of this project, and w...

rename table to 'NOW() + old_table_name'

is it possible somehow to use the NOW() function or something similar in MYSQL rename table()? the reason i need this is because instead of dropping old tables straight away we prefer to first rename then to old_ date-table-was-taken-ouf-of-use_ table_name so when we actualy delete it we know how long the table has been 'unavailable' ...

Strip Characters Before Period If Filename Has Prefix in Bash

I have a directory that looks like this: pages/ folder1/ folder1.filename1.txt folder1.filename2.txt folder2/ folder2.filename4.txt folder2.filename5.txt folder3/ filename6.txt I want it to look like this: pages/ folder1/ filename1.txt filename2.txt folder2/ filename3.txt filename4.txt folder3/ filename5.txt...

Append date to filename in linux

I want add the date next to a filename ("somefile.txt"). For example: somefile_25-11-2009.txt or somefile_25Nov2009.txt or anything to that effect Maybe a script will do or some command in the terminal window. I'm using Linux(Ubuntu). Thanks in advance. oh i almost forgot to add that the script or command should update the filename to...

Oracle: How do I determine the NEW name of an object in an "AFTER ALTER" trigger?

Suppose I have an AFTER ALTER trigger on my Oracle database and I rename some database object (ALTER ... RENAME TO ...). Within the trigger, how do I determine the new name of the database object? It seems that the ORA_DICT_OBJ_OWNER, ORA_DICT_OBJ_NAME and ORA_DICT_OBJ_TYPE functions all return the old values of the database object. For...

Rename pdf file to be downloaded on fly

Given: All the uploaded pdf files on server are prefixed with timestamps. Later user can download these files again. These (ugly)filenames would never change again on server. Question: When I give the option to download PDF file, name of the file looks ugly and lengthy. How can I change this name to something sensible, so that when user...

How can I easily bulk rename files with Perl?

I have a lot of files I'm trying to rename, I tried to make a regular expression to match them, but even that I got stuck on the files are named like: File Name 01 File Name 100 File Name 02 File Name 03 etc, I would like to add a "0" (zero), behind any of file that are less than 100, like this: File Name 001 ...

How do I rename primary key values in Oracle?

Our application uses an Oracle 10g database where several primary keys are exposed to the end user. Productcodes and such. Unfortunately it's to late to do anything with this, as there are tons of reports and custom scripts out there that we do not have control over. We can't redefine the primary keys or mess up the database structure. ...

Sorting output with awk, and formatting it.

I'm trying to format the output of ls -la to only contain files modified in December and output them nicely, this is what they currently look like: ls -la | awk {'print $6,$7,$8,$9,$10'} | grep "Dec" | sort -r | head -5 Dec 4 20:15 folder/ Dec 4 19:51 ./ Dec 4 17:42 Folder\ John/ Dec 4 16:19 Homework\ MAT\ 08/ Dec 4 16:05 Folder\ Smith...