test please delete

[ladymuck]

A question for the geeks out there...
I've got a text file that will be sent to me a couple of times a day. Each day the name of the file will be different (and not in a nice logical way).
What I'd like to do is take the original file name and put it either at the start of the file or at the end of it, then rename the file to "INPUT.txt"

Just wondering if anyone has done anything like that before and is bored.

So you want to rename the file twice?
EDIT: oh I misread. So does that mean you'll be overwriting the file or appending the new data each day?

[WTFH]

So you want to rename the file twice?
EDIT: oh I misread. So does that mean you'll be overwriting the file or appending the new data each day?

Overwriting each time. File comes in today:
AB-1234_5678.txt
contents:

blah blah blah1
blah blah blah2
blah blah blah3

Change it to:
INPUT.txt
contents:

AB-1234_5678
blah blah blah1
blah blah blah2
blah blah blah3

Once it's renamed, it then gets processed and deleted.

[DaveB]

A question for the geeks out there...
I've got a text file that will be sent to me a couple of times a day. Each day the name of the file will be different (and not in a nice logical way).
What I'd like to do is take the original file name and put it either at the start of the file or at the end of it, then rename the file to "INPUT.txt"

Just wondering if anyone has done anything like that before and is bored.

Linux et al on the command line

sed -i '$a foo.txt' foo.txt | mv foo.txt INPUT.txt

That will append the original file name to the original file and rename it.

[NickFitz]

A question for the geeks out there...
I've got a text file that will be sent to me a couple of times a day. Each day the name of the file will be different (and not in a nice logical way).
What I'd like to do is take the original file name and put it either at the start of the file or at the end of it, then rename the file to "INPUT.txt"

Just wondering if anyone has done anything like that before and is bored.

Untested MS-DOS batch file; puts the filename at the start:

REM You might need another \ after %cd% as that's the working directory and I don't know how it ends
REM First, echo the first argument to the command to the new file INPUT.TXT in the working directory
ECHO %1 > "%cd%INPUT.txt"
REM Apparently ECHO/ (N.B. NO space between "ECHO" and "/") will output a return character
REM so the filename is on its own line
ECHO/ >> "%cd%INPUT.txt"
REM Then append the rest of the input file
TYPE %1 >> "%cd%INPUT.txt"
REM And delete the original. You *did* have a backup, didn't you? Maybe leave this line out
REM and delete it manually...
DEL "%cd%%1"

Usage, assuming it's called THINGY.BAT: THINGY.BAT AB-1234_5678.txt

Again: no testing done on this whatsoever, as MacOS still doesn't support MS-DOS batch file syntax and I don't seem to have any Windows VMs to hand

[DoctorStrangelove]

'ere, this isn't "Technical" you know.

Tea: lamb's liver and bacon with onion gravy, very nice, stewed pears (sans custard), 0.91 pints of good Glengettie tea.

Entertainment: "Elizabeth (1998)", inneresting enough what with the heads on pikes, burnings at the stake, et al.

The dancing, not so much.

[NickFitz]

Walk briskly walked, green ring closed

And in a moment of genius that may well net me next year's Nobel Prize for Food, I modified the route to take in the award-winning chip shop, where I had placed an order online for collection before setting out. So that was tea sorted too: extremely nice fish and chips

You have to choose a ten-minute time slot for collections, and I got there two minutes into mine and had to wait a couple of minutes for the chips, so it was all nice and fresh; it takes about eight or nine minutes to walk back home from there, and their wrapping kept it warm enough for that time

[Scruff]

A question for the geeks out there...
I've got a text file that will be sent to me a couple of times a day. Each day the name of the file will be different (and not in a nice logical way).
What I'd like to do is take the original file name and put it either at the start of the file or at the end of it, then rename the file to "INPUT.txt"

Just wondering if anyone has done anything like that before and is bored.

@Mods : This belongs in Technical...

[NickFitz]

Entertainment: "Elizabeth (1998)", inneresting enough what with the heads on pikes, burnings at the stake, et al.

The dancing, not so much.

Sadly, with these things, the dancing is the price you have to pay for the pleasure of seeing hapless Catholics martyred

[eek]

@Mods : This belongs in Technical...

Did you notice who the poster asking the question was?

Spot the issue?

[Scruff]

Did you notice who the poster asking the question was?

Spot the issue?

doh! Whoosh Parrot for eek...[emoji8]