Script to copy file and rename with YYMMDD_HHMM

[Admiral208]

How can I do this???

 

I need to copy an image and rename it to YYYYMMDD_HHMM.jpg

 

Cheers

 

James

[sonofsanta]

Random point while I skive off digging through the T&Cs of a contract: have you looked at IrfanView's batch function? It can do batch renaming, could well be worth a punt.

[SpuffMonkey]

Heres a similar situation in a batch file I use to save some daily log files - hope its of some help

 

 

for /F "tokens=1,2" %%d in ('date /T') do set day=%%d & set date=%%e

set yyyy=%DATE:~6,4%

set mm=%DATE:~3,2%

set dd=%DATE:~0,2%

set dateserial=%yyyy%%mm%%dd%

ren filedel.log %dateserial%_filedel.log

[Admiral208]

I need it as a script that can run as a scheduled task... probably should have mentioned that.

[Admiral208]

Heres a similar situation in a batch file I use to save some daily log files - hope its of some help

 

 

for /F "tokens=1,2" %%d in ('date /T') do set day=%%d & set date=%%e

set yyyy=%DATE:~6,4%

set mm=%DATE:~3,2%

set dd=%DATE:~0,2%

set dateserial=%yyyy%%mm%%dd%

ren filedel.log %dateserial%_filedel.log

 

That's brilliant. Ive been searching for ages. How can I add the time as HHMM after the date?

[themightymrp]

With a slight modification to the above script you get:

 

@echo off

for /F "tokens=1,2" %%d in ('date /T') do set day=%%d & set date=%%e

set yyyy=%DATE:~6,4%

set mm=%DATE:~3,2%

set dd=%DATE:~0,2%

set dateserial=%yyyy%%mm%%dd%

set hh=%time:~0,2%

set mi=%time:~3,2%

set timeserial=%hh%%mi%

ren filedel.log %dateserial%_%timeserial%.log

[Admiral208]

Brilliant!!!! Just what I needed!

 

Thanks All

[somabc]

Yes you can use the inbuilt functions 'Time' and 'Date' and pick out the parts you need.

[Admiral208]

Is there a way to ensure that there is a leading zero in the time part??

 

When I ran the script this morning, at 8.57am, the file output was 20101117_ 857.jpg, is there a way of displaying 20101117_0857.jpg??

 

is quite important because the next time the script runs is 10am. this means that the 10am images appears before the 8.57am image because of the filename.

 

Thanks

[themightymrp]

Change the code slightly to be like this:

 

@echo off

for /F "tokens=1,2" %%d in ('date /T') do set day=%%d & set date=%%e

set yyyy=%DATE:~6,4%

set mm=%DATE:~3,2%

set dd=%DATE:~0,2%

set dateserial=%yyyy%%mm%%dd%

set hours=%time: =0%

set hh=%hours:~0,2%

set mi=%time:~3,2%

set timeserial=%hh%%mi%

ren whatever.jpg %dateserial%_%timeserial%.jpg

 

That should do it

[Admiral208]

Thank you. My only problem now is that I wont be able to test until tomorrow morning. Im sure it will be fine though.

 

Thanks again

[neodong]

i am usually create it with visual basic 6 if the problem using windows operating system

[Arthur]

When I ran the script this morning, at 8.57am, the file output was 20101117_ 857.jpg, is there a way of displaying 20101117_0857.jpg

If your images are from a digital camera or webcam you could use ExifTool to read the time and date directly from the image itself.

 

FOR %%i IN (*.jpg) DO EXIFTOOL -d "%%Y%%m%%d_%%H%%M%%S.jpg" "-FileName