From: "Gregg Nemesure" 


"Adam Flinton"  wrote in
message news:402a9389$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Frank Haber wrote:
>
> > I could do this with 4DOS/4NT, if I stll had my chops.  Someone gave me
a mess
> > of  CDs with folders containing thousands of alphanumeric filenames of
5-8
> > characters, with a uniform extension.  No, they're not digital pictures,
but
> > the names are similar.
> >
> > Anyone ever seen a sort of "report writer front end or
filter GUI," that
could
> > take filenames, sort and blank-trim them, and output to tab- or
> > comma-delimited for import to a spreadhsheet, where further mangling
will be
> > done?
> >
> > There must be something in the camera or MP3/tunes areas that does this,
no?
>
> You could load cygwin & then use bash/grep etc....
>
> Adam
>

Or he could just use the native Windows facilities.

Gregg

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