I have a strange file in my file system without the extension part. The filename is "15.". The weird thing is that it is not one of those without the dot part (like just "15"), but the one with the dot but no extension ("15.") -- it is literally an illegal filename in windows, and not sure how did it get created in the first place.
I know it is a text file and it is about 15KB in size; however, due to the weirdness in name, I can't open it with any application -- I've tried to open in notepad, wordpad, etc., have tried the 'type' command to spit it out on commans shell, tried to shell-open enclosing filename in quotes, and so on -- all methods result in a 'file not found' error except the notepad, which says '15.txt' is not found.
Due to the nature of the issue and the way search engines optimize the search, it is extemely hard to search for an answer in any of the search engines online. So, I just wanted to put this question out there and see if anybody had to deal with a similar issue and have found any way to rename the file or even to change the extension.
Filenames that are valid in NTFS but cannot be used from Windows can be created when accesing disks or shares from other operating systems like Linux.
If you don't have a Linux installation at hand, then get hold of a "live" CD, boot Linux, and change the filename.
That may sound like a hassle, but Windows-only solutions (moving stuff around, deleting the directory) are even worse.
Use REN: http://ss64.com/nt/ren.html
It is a command prompt command (run > cmd > cd wherever > ren 15. 15.txt )
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I need something that can copy a specified file any and everywhere on my drive (or computer) where that file already exists; i.e. update a file. I tried to search this site, in case I'm not the first, and found this:
CMD command line: copy file to multiple locations at the same time
But not quite the same.
Example:
Say I have a file called CurrentList.txt, and I have copies of it all over my hard drive. But then I change it and I want all the copies to update. So I want to copy the newer one over all the others. It could 'copy if newer', but generally I know it's newer, so it could also just find every instance and copy over it.
I was originally going to use some kind of .bat file that would have to iterate over every folder seeking the file in question, but my batch file programming is limited/rusty. Then I looked to see if xcopy could do it, but I don't think so...
For how I will use it most, I generally know where those files are going to be, so it actually might be as good or better if I could specify it to (using example), "copy CurrentList.txt, overwriting all other copies wherever found in the C:\Lists folder and all subfolders".
I would really like to be able to have it in a context menu, so I could (from a file explorer) right click on a file or selected files and choose the option to distribute it.
Thanks in advance for any ideas.
Use the "replace" command...
replace CurrentList.txt C:\Lists /s
I am currently facing an issue which I don't know how to fix. I got the following Julia code:
while true
print(watch_file("test"))
end
So this should get me all the file changes in the directory named "test". At least on windows.
Now thats all well and good, and it kinda works, at least for creating a file or moving a file to that directory. This is an example of what I get:
("New Textfile.txt",Base.FileEvent(true,false,false))
But when I delete or rename that file, I don't get the filename of the file deleted or renamed.
("",Base.FileEvent(true,false,false))
Is there a different method/function I can get the filename with, even when the file is deleted or renamed? Or even better, a way that archives this and is cross-platform-compatible? Any help appreciated.
EDIT: If you could give me an alternative that supports recursive monitoring, that would be even better.
In Linux, Julia 0.4.5 and 0.4.3 watch_file returns file name always. It is a very platform-dependent feature (like in Node.js https://nodejs.org/api/fs.html#fs_caveats) and only manual polling can be truly platform-independent solution.
Ok, I have files named
ANIME~1.MKV~FNH47B97
ANIME~1.MKV
It is FULL filenames. It is named so by user.
And I want to rename the first one to ANIME~1.JPG. From OS point of view they seem to be the same files. And both MoveFile and MoveFileEx do nothing. They return OK and that's all.
Another weird situation is when we have, for example,
ANIME~2.MKV~FNH47B97
ANIME~3.MKV
And I want to rename the first one to ANIME~2.MKV
OS founds that it's the same as ANIME~3.MKV and still does nothing.
It depends on the number of files with "the same dos 8.3 names" in the folder
Any way to workaround it? May be some additional actions/flags needed?
To summarise the discussion in the comments as an approximate answer: MoveFile(Ex) works on the full filenames, though it can find the source file by its short name, the destination file is taken to be the long name.
This means that the destination filename should not clash with any long or short filenames of existing files. This is probably why your second test-case fails.
The first test-case probably fails for a similar reason; I've tried it with just those two files and MoveFile works with it.
It is possible to disable the generation of DOS style 8.3 shortnames, see KB121007, but I really don't recommend it. It can cause lots of issues, see for instance this article. Also, this is a decision that should be left to the system administrator, not any application.
Description:
I am searching a very large server for files that is on a different server. right now I open command prompt and type
DIR [FILE NAME] /S/4
This returns the server location of the file with some other stuff that is not really needed.
Question:
I have a lot of files to search and one by one input into the above command could take forever. Is there a way I could input all of the names of all the files and only search once and the search results would only need to show file name and location?
First, I hope you don't mean DOS, but rather Windows cmd or batch.
You can certainly write a script that will run your DIR command once per file being sought.
But what you most likely want instead is to search once and print the path of each file found. For this you can use PowerShell's FindChildItem or the improved one posted here: http://windows-powershell-scripts.blogspot.in/2009/08/unix-linux-find-equivalent-in.html
It will be something like:
Find-ChildItem -Name "firstfile.txt|secondfile.txt|..."
Another approach is to install msys or cygwin or another Linux tools environment for Windows and use the Linux find command.
I have bunch of files that need to have a (.) dot removed from the file-name. Eg. "Mr.-John-Smith.jpg" to "Mr-John-Smith.jpg". I don't have real experience with programming and know only html/css and a little javascript. I found another identical question here on stackoverflow, but what I gathered it was fixed on linux system and BASH was used.
Anyways, if anyone could provide me a tutorial on which program to use for this and what code to execute in that program to make it happen I'd be grateful.
if you are using a windows environment (which i guess you do)
you can download this free utility to mass change file names !
main page :
http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Main_Intro.php
download page :
http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Download.php
its easy to use
enjoy
If your file names in a file...
1- Open Microsoft Word or any text editor. Press ctrl+h and then search "." without quotes then replace it with blank character.
2- It will remove all dots, again bring "." to your file extention such as .jpg , .png searh your file extention for example "jpg" and replace it with ".jpg"
It will works %100, i am using this method everytime.
if they are not in a file and if you want do somethings in your operation systems' file system
Try this program. It is very useful for this operation;
Download
To remove all except the extension dot from all files in a directory, you can use PowerShell that comes with newer versions of Windows, and can be downloaded for older versions;
Line breaks inserted for readability, this should go on one line;
PS> dir | rename-item -newname {
[System.IO.Path]::GetFileNameWithoutExtension($_.name).Replace(".","") +
[System.IO.Path]::GetExtension($_.name); }
What it does is to take the file name without an extension and remove all dots in it, and then add back the extension. It then renames the file to the resulting name.
This will change for example do.it.now to doit.now, or in your case, Mr.-John-Smith.jpg to Mr-John-Smith.jpg.