Mordack
13th October 2005 14:22 UTC

Renaming files using wildcard
Noob question here... :)

Is it possible to copy files as a wildcard i.e. h*.txt and then rename them to h*.dat inside of the installer? I can do the first part with the CopyFiles command, but I haven't been able to figure out how to rename them using the same wildcard. The reason is, the source files that I would be copying over, can vary in their names, but they always start with the letter h.

Any ideas?

-M

Afrow UK
13th October 2005 15:02 UTC

You need to recursively loop through all files in the folder with FindFirst, FindNext and FindClose. You can check if the first character is "h" with StrCpy and StrCmp. You can also use StrCpy to get the last four characters (to check if it is ".txt")

-Stu

Instructor
13th October 2005 18:03 UTC

Name "Output"
OutFile "Output.exe"

!include "FileFunc.nsh"
!insertmacro Locate
!insertmacro GetBaseName

Section
        StrCpy $R0 "C:\ftp"       #Search in
        StrCpy $R1 "C:\ftp_ren"   #Copy to

        ${Locate} "$R0" "/L=F /M=h*.txt" "LocateCallback"

        IfErrors 0 +2
        MessageBox MB_OK "Error"
SectionEnd

Function LocateCallback
        ${GetBaseName} "$R7" $0
        CopyFiles /SILENT $R9 $R1
        Rename "$R1\$R7" "$R1\$0.dat"

        Push 0
FunctionEnd