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|    Alan Baker to Herbert Kleebauer    |
|    Re: Batch file to uniquely nmame & rando    |
|    15 Sep 20 10:36:08    |
      XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, rec.photo.digital       From: notonyourlife@no.no.no.no              On 2020-09-15 9:51 a.m., Herbert Kleebauer wrote:       > On 15.09.2020 03:23, Arlen Holder wrote:       >       > > SET NewName=!RANDOM!-!RANDOM!-!RANDOM!!Use!       > > ECHO %%A/!NewName!>> %TranslationFile%       > > RENAME "%%A" "!NewName!"       >       > Just because you use %random% 3 times doesn't make it impossible to get       > the same name twice. Hopefully you never write SW where live depends on.       >       >       >> I use it when I take a bunch of screenshots over long periods of time,       >> and       >> edit them one by one, as needed, where the names aren't in the order       >> of the       >> screenshots anyway, and there are too many to rename manually, so I       >> rename       >> them randomly - which makes each one distinct.       >       > This is much easier done with the GUI using explorer. Select all files       > you want to rename and click "rename". If you display the files ordered       > by date, then also the filenames have this order.       >       >              Arlen's really not very bright.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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