Delphi – How to rename exe file

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Say I've got a generic vertical market application and I want to package it as two separate programs aaa.exe and bbb.exe. Is there any way to use the Delphi linker to create an EXE/DLL file that doesn't have the same name as the DPR?

I can't just rename the file because I get this error

    bbb.exe - Unable to to locate component
      This application has failed to start because aaa.exe was not found. 
      Re-installing the application may fix this problem.

Now in general, I can rename an executable, but not this one. Thanks for the comments to point out my boneheadedness in this regard. There is a problem, just obviously not a normal one, maybe not even necessarily Delphi related.

I'm using Delphi 7 (if it is possible in 2007/2009 that would be awesome because I need more fodder for upgrade)

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Delphi 2007 and Delphi 2009 both use MSbuild. You can use post-build events in MSbuild to do almost anything you want. You could, for example, use the Copy task to copy the EXE into a new filename.

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Mysql – How to quickly rename a MySQL database (change schema name)

For InnoDB, the following seems to work: create the new empty database, then rename each table in turn into the new database:

RENAME TABLE old_db.table TO new_db.table;

You will need to adjust the permissions after that.

For scripting in a shell, you can use either of the following:

mysql -u username -ppassword old_db -sNe 'show tables' | while read table; \ 
    do mysql -u username -ppassword -sNe "rename table old_db.$table to new_db.$table"; done

for table in `mysql -u root -ppassword -s -N -e "use old_db;show tables from old_db;"`; do mysql -u root -ppassword -s -N -e "use old_db;rename table old_db.$table to new_db.$table;"; done;

Notes:

There is no space between the option -p and the password. If your database has no password, remove the -u username -ppassword part.
If some table has a trigger, it cannot be moved to another database using above method (will result Trigger in wrong schema error). If that is the case, use a traditional way to clone a database and then drop the old one:

mysqldump old_db | mysql new_db
If you have stored procedures, you can copy them afterwards:

mysqldump -R old_db | mysql new_db

Bash – How to rename the extension for a bunch of files

If using bash, there's no need for external commands like sed, basename, rename, expr, etc.

for file in *.html
do
  mv "$file" "${file%.html}.txt"
done

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Bash – How to rename the extension for a bunch of files

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