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Out and about on another nice day. Things to do, things to do.

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Out and about on another nice day. Things to do, things to do.

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Yeah, same here. Time to take puppywuppy out for her walk.

Been allocating my time between indoor work and outdoor work depending on weather and schedule. Today I'm sorting out about 2 1/2 years of misc paperwork for filing. I bought a big 4-drawer filing cabinet from a used office furniture place a long time ago, which is where these papers are destined. Tomorrow we're expecting a surprise late season shower, so more filing. I should never have let it sit that long!

Then will probably need to yank more weeds after the rain. Maybe it won't be so bad.


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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

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Wow, really did a number on myself a bit ago. Though I had really gotten one of my seizure meds stuck in my throat. Pounding on my chest and coughing I was able to dislodge it and try again. Second time it went down but most of the coating came off and just yuck. Leaned back again.

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Wow, really did a number on myself a bit ago. Though I had really gotten one of my seizure meds stuck in my throat. Pounding on my chest and coughing I was able to dislodge it and try again. Second time it went down but most of the coating came off and just yuck. Leaned back again.

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Oh, that's scary!

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Been spending a lot of unplanned time at Drs. Hubby had a disagreement with a 1 hp router, only the 2nd accident in over 35 years of woodworking, and two finger got pretty sliced up in ways that can't be stitched. ER, then hand specialist, now potentially urgent care this weekend since wounds are still bleeding.

I noticed that they don't have clocks in ER or medical unit waiting rooms.


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As I recall, there aren't any in airports. And I imagine none in casinos either.

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As I recall, there aren't any in airports. And I imagine none in casinos either.

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Hey Sigs... I had what I think should be quite a bit simpler of a code ask of your husband. I'd prefer to do it as a batch in Windows, but if he's got a Linux solution that would work easily, that's fine too.

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THE TL;DR PART

Did a huge batch of renames on pairs of images/config files. Data in config files are bad now.

Example filenames:

Item 1.cfg
Item 1.jpg
Item A.cfg
Item A.jpg
Item zed.cfg
Item zed.jpg

And inside "Item zed.cfg" there would be a line that had the old file names which would read something like this:

"Item zed (version 5).jpg"

After renaming all the cfg/jpg files slightly different, I need that line to now read the same as the new name, or in this case:

"Item zed.jpg"

A Bulk batch/script that would do this for every .cfg file in the folder.

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Explanation:

I've got somewhere around 1,200 .CFG configuration files. They are paired with and have matching filenames of 1,200 .JPG image files.

Every single one of these needed a filename change. That is already done. Most of it was possible with a few simple bulk renames, with about 250 needing to be done individually by hand.

That was the easy part.


The config files aren't very big. Maybe 6 lines of code with some blank lines in between. But the only part I'm concerned with is the fact that inside of each configuration file is a line with quotation marks has the filename of the paired JPG image. But now that all of the JPG and CFG files had to be renamed, I'm going to have to go back into every one of those 1,200 CFG files in a text editor and copy paste the new image filenames on top of the old ones by hand.

I'm actually pretty quick at doing stuff like this at this point, but I know there's got to be a much smarter way of doing this that wouldn't require writing a few pages of code.


All I need is to write the current filename of the CFG file that is open on top of the filename it's calling for the image inside (so ignoring the file extension when making the change, of course). But a bulk command that would just do this for every file that is in the folder.

I hate that I know this will be simple code, at least in one popular language, but I have no idea where to begin and trying to google a solution to this is proving quite challenging.


No worries if he doesn't have any ideas. I figured I'd throw it out there and see if maybe I could save a day or two of tedium if he had an idea.

Tell him thanks in advance for me if he does.

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Ill let him know. Hubby's hand was (painfully) rebandaged today. They had to soak the bandages off and his fingers are still throbbing. IDK if his mind can be wrenched from that sensation or if he could welcome the distraction. It may take time.

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