I have a file I download everyday, let's call it "output.txt." The file "output.txt" is saved in a directory by date, for example 10012005 (for Oct. 1, 2005). I have a years worth of output files in my c:\ drive. Now I have to rename each output file so that I can copy all of the output to a single directory. It's a nightmare to do manually. I really don't care what the files are named as long as each file gets a unique name. Imaging this:
C:\01012005 C:\01022005 C:\01032005 C:\01042005 .. . . Now, each of those directories has a file in it called "output.txt." I want to get everyone of those "output.txt" and copy it to a single directory (call it c:\renoutput) and each output will have a unique name. So when I do a "dir" of C:\RENOUTPUT is looks like: output1.txt output2.txt output3.txt output4.txt .. . . So I suppose I want to do a locate, rename, move. 1) locate all "output.txt" files on the hard drive; 2) rename each "output.txt" to something unique, and 3) move each renamed file from its original location to a single directory. I have tried a few ways with no success. Thanks for the help. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
