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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: RE: new extension for talkbox directory clip: ".dirname.tbx"RE: new extension for talkbox directory clip: ".dirname.tbx"
From: Aman Singer <aman_at_asinger.net>
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 23:35:14 -0400 Hi, Glenn. You can certainly use the ren command with wildcards. What you can't do is have several files with the same name in the same directory. That is, let's say I had audio books.mp3 music.mp3 radio.mp3 in the same directory. I can't say ren *.mp3 .dirname.mp3 What would happen is audio books.mp3 would be renamed .dirname.mp3. When DOS went to music.mp3, it would say "can't rename, .dirname.mp3 already exists" and that would be that. I'm still confused about why you want to put periods in front of all your file names. You don't need to, in that the only file that needs a period in any folder is the .dirname.mp3 file. Aman -----Original Message----- From: Glenn Ervin at Home [mailto:GlennErvin_at_cableone.net] Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 8:57 PM To: Aman Singer Subject: Re: new extension for talkbox directory clip: ".dirname.tbx" No Aman, the ren command works in the folder you are in, so it should rename files using wildcard characters. I have always used wildcard characters in renaming files, but just never with a dot in front. Glenn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aman Singer" <aman_at_asinger.net> To: "'Glenn Ervin at Home'" <GlennErvin_at_cableone.net>; "'Rockbox development'" <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se> Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 7:44 PM Subject: RE: new extension for talkbox directory clip: ".dirname.tbx" Hi, Glenn. Again, I'm a bit lost on why you'd want to do this. If you use the script to generate the names, you wouldn't need to do this. In any case, though, even if the period were removed, and you tried ren *.mp3 dirname.mp3 it wouldn't work, since the file system would only rename the first mp3 file to dirname.mp3. At that point, it would see multiple dirname.mp3s and stop renaming anything. Aman -----Original Message----- From: rockbox-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se [mailto:rockbox-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se] On Behalf Of Glenn Ervin at Home Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 7:53 PM To: Rockbox development Subject: Re: new extension for talkbox directory clip: ".dirname.tbx" Yes, I think that the dot causes problems, as I tried the following: ren *.mp3 .*.mp3 and it renamed all my folder MP3 files with a period in front, but it left off the first letter of each folder. Glenn ----- Original Message ----- From: "scott" <die_pokemon_die123_at_yahoo.com> To: <Gajdos_at_metatem.net>; "Rockbox development" <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se> Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 6:00 PM Subject: Re: new extension for talkbox directory clip: ".dirname.tbx" --- Gajdos_at_metatem.net wrote: > Since the dirname is identified by its own extension now, why not looking > for "<anything>.tbx" - so it's up to everyone to use dots in front or not > - or is this already allowed? what happens if there are 2 *.tbx file though? i don't see why the . in front is such a big deal in the first place... -scott __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html _______________________________________________ http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox _______________________________________________ http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox _______________________________________________ http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox Received on 2004-04-11 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |