Rename file, get new name from file?

[EctoOne]

Hi,
not sure if this is the correct section or it would be better in Apps.

I'm looking for a way to read the new name for a file from a file/variable.
Something like this: http://aminet.net/package/util/cli/FileComment
But for renaming files.
I've tried stuff like:

Rename "OldName" <RAM:FileWithNewNameInIt

But it doesn't work.

I probably could write some scripts which uses http://aminet.net/package/util/cli/SRename(which can copy the file name to the comment and vice versa) and http://aminet.net/package/util/cli/readcomment (to export the comment), but I wouldn't mind a simpler way.

Now, that I think of it. Is there an easier way to copy a file name into a file/variable?

I'm using all the tools from above to copy the file name to the comment and then export the comment into a variable. Which I then import as comment in other files. I'm doing this for archives, so that I can trace from which archive the files came. If I could skip the step copying the name to the comment, that would be great too.

[Thomas Richter]

Originally Posted by EctoOne

I'm looking for a way to read the new name for a file from a file/variable.

From a file or a variable? If you want to take a name from a variable, just put the variable there:

 rename original $foo

and put the new name into foo before.

To take a new name from a file, learn about the backticks. They take the output of a file, and place it as argument on the line:

 rename original "`type file_containing_new_name`"

[EctoOne]

Wow, thanks for the quick help. It works great.
I have used backticks before, but not that much that I thought it would help here.

Also for my question about copying a file name to a file/variable, im using FilePart from the 0Utils package now.

Off to make some custom entries for DirOpus.