Re: Changing some filenames

John W. Krahn wrote: M.Lewis wrote: I have a need to manipulate some filenames. The files are all in a single directory. They are currently named in the form: 01012003-Rattler.tar.gz 01162003-Rattler.tar.gz 01312003-Rattler.tar.gz 02152003-Rattler.tar.gz These are backup files from a machi

Re: Changing some filenames

M.Lewis wrote: I have a need to manipulate some filenames. The files are all in a single directory. They are currently named in the form: 01012003-Rattler.tar.gz 01162003-Rattler.tar.gz 01312003-Rattler.tar.gz 02152003-Rattler.tar.gz These are backup files from a machine. What I will ultimat

Re: Changing some filenames

> So all I have is the filenames to put the files in date order. I believe > this would be the proper format to do this: > > 20030101-Rattler.tar.gz > 20030116-Rattler.tar.gz > 20030131-Rattler.tar.gz > 20030215-Rattler.tar.gz > > I wrote a short script to do this, and it will obviously work. My >

Changing some filenames

I have a need to manipulate some filenames. The files are all in a single directory. They are currently named in the form: 01012003-Rattler.tar.gz 01162003-Rattler.tar.gz 01312003-Rattler.tar.gz 02152003-Rattler.tar.gz These are backup files from a machine. What I will ultimately be doing is