Renaming files from *.ACK to *.RED [FTP]

[The_Unbeliever]

Hi All

Do anybody know how to bulk rename files during an ftp operation?

When we download files with an .ACK extension, we want to rename same to *.RED

Platform is Windows XP.

TIA

Ook

 

[karnuffel]

Hi All

Do anybody know how to bulk rename files during an ftp operation?

When we download files with an .ACK extension, we want to rename same to *.RED

Platform is Windows XP.

TIA

Ook

Hi Oom Ook.

I had to do this recently and found this helpful

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/...e-to-rename-large-number-of-files-in-a-folder

 

[Rocket-Boy]

Hi All

Do anybody know how to bulk rename files during an ftp operation?

When we download files with an .ACK extension, we want to rename same to *.RED

Platform is Windows XP.

TIA

Ook

Sis why arent you doing it with a linux box?
afaik you should be able to mget *.ACK *.RED, as specifying a space will rename the file through the basic FTP client.
So get somefile.ACK somefile.RED will rename it when pulling it, not 100% sure if it will do that with wildcards specified though.
I normally do that stuff as a process in the linux scripts...

Otherwise powershell could quite happily do it, its way more advanced for scripting than doing batch scripts.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Sis why arent you doing it with a linux box?
afaik you should be able to mget *.ACK *.RED, as specifying a space will rename the file through the basic FTP client.
So get somefile.ACK somefile.RED will rename it when pulling it, not 100% sure if it will do that with wildcards specified though.
I normally do that stuff as a process in the linux scripts...

Otherwise powershell could quite happily do it, its way more advanced for scripting than doing batch scripts.

Will try the mget command...

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Sorted.

WinSCP command-line helped a lot

Here's a script file :

option batch on
option confirm off
open ftp://user:password@<serverIP> or <serverURL>
get -transfer=binary *.ack
mv *.ack *.red
exit

Use it with the /script switch, eg

winscp /script=script.txt

For better results, put c:\program files\winscp in your path, so you can call winscp from anywhere you need.