Renaming files using wildcard

3 posts

GuestOctober 13, 2005 at 11:22 AM#

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 UKOctober 13, 2005 at 12:02 PM#

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

InstructorOctober 13, 2005 at 3:03 PM#

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