Short:        Pattern renaming for advanced usage
Author:       kenny@bgnett.no <Kenneth "Kenny" Nilsen>
Uploader:     kenny bgnett no <Kenneth "Kenny" Nilsen>
Type:         disk/misc
Version:      1.0
Requires:     AmigaOS 2+
Architecture: m68k-amigaos


mailto:kenny@bgnett.no

$VER: PatternMove 1.0 (31.10.97)

Copyright (C) 1997 by Digital Surface/Kenneth "Kenny" Nilsen.
All rights reserved.

This little program (dosscript) will allow you to do advanced renaming on
files.

Installation -

- copy PMV to s:
- protect s:pmv +s

USAGE -

Template: PMV PATTERN/A,TOFORMAT/A

Pattern  - the file(s) you want to rename
ToFormat - how to format the new filename(s).

List of usefull format args (see complete list under LFORMAT for the LIST
command in the DOS manual):

 %E - Uses just the file extension
 %M - Uses the filename only, omitting any extension
 %N - Uses the whole filename
 %P - Uses the file parent path (includes a ":" or "/")

Examples:
---------

Rename all mod.<files> to <files>.mod

1> pmv mod.#? %E.mod

Rename all <files>.txt to just <files>

1> pmv *.txt %M

-- If you have set current dir (CD) to another dir then where the files are:

Rename mod.<files>.pp to mod.<files>

1> pmv ram:mod.#?.pp %P%M



 Regards,
---
   /"``  Kenny  mailto:kenny@bgnett.no http://www.bgnett.no/~kenny/
 \/             software developer     finger me for details
---