Thank you so much Scott. I'm looking into using your solution and learning some VBscript. I've been looking on the web for days and this seems like a much simpler solution.
Does anyone know an elegant way to dump out a spreadsheet to the Tab-separated text file format using a command line util? I do a lot of processing on our Bill of Materials that are in spreadsheet format; but I have to convert them to text first using Excel. I am looking for a solution that...
Joe - you rock!
It didn't quite work as shown in the tech note; but I did finally get it done:
Did NOT work (seemed to ignore the last space at the end) :
rd "\\?\c:\<var>path_to_folder_that contains a trailing space.txt</var> "
Did NOT work (wants full path apparently) :
rd...
Hi Joe-
Below are the results, interesting that the rd "error msg" recognizes the space at the end; but still none of these work yet. I tried both rd and ren commands - with slightly different error messages:
[C:\DSP\NoBS\InfernoSeniorsDSP]rd "inferno seniors-1 DSP?"
TCC: (Sys) The system...
Hi Joe-
Didn't work yet; seems to strip off the space at the end:
[C:\DSP\NoBS\InfernoSeniorsDSP]ren "inferno seniors-1 DSP*" x
C:\DSP\NoBS\InfernoSeniorsDSP\inferno seniors-1 DSP -> C:\DSP\NoBS\InfernoSeniorsDSP\x
TCC: (Sys) The system cannot find the file specified...
Previously, you've helped me with renaming files using wildcards - thanks so much - got that working with a script after checking the forum.
Now I'm stuck with a folder name that I cannot change, even using the window's rename command. Below is the folder name that's giving me trouble during...
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