Copy and rename files creating a YYMM prefix for each file

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I am trying to create a VBScript that will read through a folder, copy and rename a specific set of files. I would like to prefix each renamed file with "me-YYMM-" filename. The names of the files will never change, but I want the renamed files to be named with the current YYMM when I run the script. This is what I would like to be able to do.

copy and rename - c:\dir1\file1 to c:\dir2\me-YYMM-file1
copy and rename - c:\dir1\file2 to c:\dir2\me-YYMM-file2

The dir1, dir2 and file names will always be static, but I may need to add or delete files from this process. Any help would be appreciated. For my purposes it could be a copy or a move. I have to be able to rename the files though.

Posted 18-Mar-11 4:10am

Danno57

Updated 18-Mar-11 4:15am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 20-Mar-11 22:51pm

OP commented:

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
' Get the current year and month and copy/move file(s) to the same
' or different directory and prefix the file with YYMM-
Dim sDate
Dim sYear
Dim sMonth
' Get the current year and month for the file prefix
sYear = Right(Year(Now), 2)
sMonth = Month(Now)
If Len(sMonth) = 1 Then
sMonth = "0" & sMonth
End If
sDate = sYear & sMonth & "-"

objFSO.CopyFile "C:\dir1\file1-prt", "C:\dir2\" & sDate & "file1"
objFSO.CopyFile "C:\dir1\file2-prt", "C:\dir2\" & sDate & "file2"

copies and renames C:\dir1\file1-prt to C:\dir2\yymm-file1

I also tried to copy and rename the file to the same directory and it worked just fine. Also tried a move and rename to the same directory and it worked with no issues.

I know this may seem simple to some, but

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Yusuf · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-18T04:29:00

Solution 1

Well, to start off use FileSystemObject.CopyFile to copy the file (see doc[^])

Once you copy the file you need to rename it, right? to do so you FileSystemObject.MoveFile , see doc[^]

Posted 18-Mar-11 4:29am

Yusuf

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Danno57 18-Mar-11 10:48am

I was able to use this and get the date to move the files. Thanks.

Yusuf 18-Mar-11 11:07am

It just occurred to me that, what happens if you use only CopyFile and you give it the new name in the same folder? Will that do both the copy and rename or does it only renames the file?

Danno57 18-Mar-11 11:36am

Just tried the CopyFile and rename. It leaves the original and makes a copy in the same directory.