How to copy and rename files?

[typ97]

I'd like to move files and add an extension to other files.

To move the files, I'm using
sysFile -copy $src $dest;
sysFile -delete $src;

And to add the extension, I tried
sysFile -rename $src ($src + "." + $index);

The delete method works but not the copy and rename and I don't understand why...

[jeffd]

If you don't need to be platform indepedent (UNIX/NT), you can just use DOS commands using Maya's system command.

--JeffD

[typ97]

In fact, I must be platform independent.
Should I check the OS or can I use a general Maya method?

[jeffd]

Gah. I just tried this and I get the same results as you. Delete works, but rename does not.

This command says it give a platform independent way of working with files, but I don't really get that as the strings of the paths that you would use are different.

I am not sure how to detect the OS, but there must be a way. I would just use system commands branched by an if statement.

--JeffD

[gdc]

about -os will return the operating system, but I'm pretty sure that you can give sysFile unix type slashes
even if your on windows, of course that still doesn't fix the problems with it.

--g

[misha123]

-rename is a flag and is followed by the filename to rename to. therefore the command is run as follows.

sysFile -rename "newFilename" filenameToChange;

same goes for copy