DOS help Needed!!!

[Oboy]

I'm trying to make a batch file for an OS2 system (yea I know) that will backup some data files. I have it all done, but the last thing I need it to do is rename the dir that the files where copied into using a name typed in by the user.
I.E. ren c:\back (user input).
With all the programming knowledge that is on this forum I'm hoping someone can help!


Looked for sometime on the web with no luck. Thanks for your help Al.

Thanks in advance!!!!
Oboy

[Paddy]

you should be able to use the 'ren' command in a batch file... I have done it on many occasion...

[TransformX]

You can't rename a directory.
What you can do is:
create a backup dir and put everything into it.
Create a new dir according to user input and move all the files into that directory.
Delete backup dir.

[KeiFront]

Like Anan said you can't rename a directory in pure DOS.

But you can use the "move" command IIRC (it's been a long time), much easier than Anan's solution.

E.g. "move c:\oldirname c:\newdirname"

[rugger]

use xcopy to copy the directory to the target, then delete the original directory if the move command cannot be found/used.