3 Automated Ways to Rename a File with a Current Date String

Using VBA macro, batch file commands and Python respectively

Background

Data science techniques can be used in the early stages of the data preparation workflow to automate manual tasks. Specifically, in many instances of my career, I have had to rename a file with a fixed naming convention with a time stamp. This is to enable the workflow downstream to be able to differentiate the data or to identify time-variant trends. Whilst it may …

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