Re: Renaming files across multiple directories

On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 23:40:42 -0400 (EDT), "DieSpammersDie"
said in
alt.comp.freeware:

>I have a file I download everyday, let's call it "output.txt." The file
>"output.txt" is saved in a directory by date, for example 10012005 (for Oct.
>1, 2005). I have a years worth of output files in my c:\ drive. Now I have
>to rename each output file so that I can copy all of the output to a single
>directory. It's a nightmare to do manually. I really don't care what the
>files are named as long as each file gets a unique name. Imaging this:
>
>C:\01012005
>C:\01022005
>C:\01032005
>C:\01042005
>. . .
>
>Now, each of those directories has a file in it called "output.txt." I want
>to get everyone of those "output.txt" and copy it to a single directory
>(call it c:\renoutput) and each output will have a unique name. So when I
>do a "dir" of C:\RENOUTPUT is looks like:
>
>output1.txt
>output2.txt
>output3.txt
>output4.txt
>. . .
>
>How can I accomplish this? Thanks for the help.
>
With a program you can download? Or with something you can write? It
should be easy to write a program that starts at the root of those
directories, goes into each of them and names the files
_output.txt, or maybe even
...\_output.txt