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8:10 AM

I guess people are maybe naturally inclined to be anti-something establishment, as if you look at society, there's people who are anti-everything.

But in the case of vaccines it's a stupid choice.

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bertieb

11:06 AM

Driving past Manc in a bit

waves distantly at Burgi

djsmiley2k

11:17 AM

/me glares at northerners being friendly to each other.

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djsmiley2k

3:34 PM

powershell users of the world

help me rename a load of files by deleting a small string from the end of the name and replacing it with another string!

dir | rename-item -NewName {$_.name -replace "config","2019-sep-13.txt"}

is what I came up with cept it says must be different paths...

> PS C:\TFTP-Root> dir | rename-item -NewName {$_.name -replace "config","2019-sep-13.txt"}
rename-item : Source and destination path must be different.
At line:1 char:7
+ dir | rename-item -NewName {$_.name -replace "config","2019-sep-13.tx ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : WriteError: (C:\TFTP-Root\Archive:String) [Rename-Item], IOException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : RenameItemIOError,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.RenameItemCommand

Ahhhhhh it was trying it on all the files, doh silly me

PS C:\TFTP-Root> dir *-config| rename-item -NewName {$_.name -replace "config","2019-sep-13.txt"}

Nope, still doesn't work

oh, the files names are typoed, i forgot

it's confg :D

yey it worked

djsmiley2k

4:00 PM

@rahuldottech another reason to hate java on sims

arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/09/…

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