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Re: How can I use system cmd with variables?

• Posted by Dan Moyer <danielmoyer at p?o?igy.net> Sep 17, 2007
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Dan Moyer wrote:
> 
> I'm writing a small utility to rename a bunch of files in some folders, 
> (I need to get rid of *spaces* in the file names, & the right-click rename
> won't do that),
> and I thought to use the following code, but it (naturally) bombed on the
> variable inside quotes...so how *would* I use a variable in this situation?
> 
> }}}
<eucode>
>   for n = 1 to length(newFileNames) do
>   	system("rename folderPathName & oldFileNames[n] newFileNames[n]", 2)
>   end for
> </eucode>
{{{

> 
> Dan Moyer

Oops, I notice now that I asked a similar question some time ago,
& someone (don't remember who, sorry) provided following answer, 
I'll test it now.

procedure rename (sequence oldNameWithPath, sequence newNameWithoutPath)
   -- rename a file or directory (both names may contain spaces)
system(sprintf("rename \"%s\" \"%s\"", {oldNameWithPath,
   newNameWithoutPath}), 2)
end procedure 

rename (selectedFolderPathName & "\\" & cdFiles[n], newCdFileName)

Dan