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Automatically Attach Current Timestamp to File Name

Haroon Shafiq — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:42:04 GMT

I recently needed to attach current timestamp to the names of some files. Following was the batch script I came up with to perform the task.

@echo off

set timestamp=%date:~10,4%%date:~4,2%%date:~7,2%%time:~0,2%%time:~3,2%%time:~6,2%%time:~9,2%

ren %1 %timestamp%%1

@echo on

//TODO: Option to rename all files in a directory

//TODO: Option to read file names to be renamed from a text file

Incremental Search - VS 2005

Haroon Shafiq — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 13:39:44 GMT

Coming from the world of Vi, I prefer the incremental search over usual Ctrl + F search dialog. Didn't know it existed in VS till now. It comes out that pressing Ctrl + I in VS 2005 puts the editor in incremental search mode. To go to next match, simply press Ctrl + I again and to go to previous match, press Ctrl + I while holding down the shift key. To exit this mode, press the return key <update>you can press any key to exit this mode</update>.

Prime numbers

Haroon Shafiq — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:59:56 GMT

Prime numbers are one of my personal favourites. Being a programmer, I am also interested in implementing and examining different prime number concepts using some programming language.

In the days to come I will write a small series of posts on prime numbers on Geeks With Blogs.