renameTo + tiimestamp
Hello everyone, I have this piece of groovy script that renames a file, this works fine as long as the name of the newfile doesn't change. However I wish to rename file = filename + timestamp (yyyy-mm-dd).xlsx . I have started creating a small timestamp to do this, however when I'm deperately trying to use this timestamp in my filename, but so far it does not work. Ny fiile is renamed java.text.SimpleDateFormat@69cbaae or Filename + Null or I get syntax errors.
I'm using V3.0 pro and xlsx format.
public class RenameFileJavaDemo
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
//Old File
File oldfile =new File("C:/temp/ISPC-OUTPUT.xlsx");
//New File
// File newfile =new File("C:/temp/ISPC-OUTPUT_NEW1.xlsx");
File newfile =new File('C:/temp/ISPC-OUTPUT_NEW1' + '.xlsx');
Date date = new Date();
SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-M-yyyy a");
df.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("Europe/Oslo"));
def datetime = df.format(date)
/*renameTo() return boolean value
* It return true if rename operation is
* successful
*/
boolean flag = oldfile.renameTo(newfile);
if(flag){
System.out.println("File renamed successfully");
}else{
System.out.println("Rename operation failed");
}
}
}
Are you able to manually rename a file with a name that looks like what you want? Perhaps it's a Windows format issue.
The other thing I would check is whether or not your date is actually a string. It looks like one but it might not be and you may need to convert it to one before you can use it in a file name.
A co worker just found this solution for me that works, I owe him :-)
import groovy.io.FileType def now = new Date() def oldfile = new File("C:/temp/ISPC-OUTPUT.xlsx") String empty = "" oldfile.parentFile.eachFile (FileType.FILES) { file -> curDate = now.format("yyyyMMdd", TimeZone.getTimeZone('UTC')) String newName = file.path newName = newName.replaceAll(~/ISPC-OUTPUT/, "ISPC-OUTPUT"+"_"+curDate) file.renameTo newName log.info "New Name:- "+newName }
