Renaming files in one swoop

[APawlik]

Is there a way in Win2000 to rename a bunch of
files in one swoop ? The ren command doesn't seem
to work the same way it did under DOS. When I do

ren *.ext 1999_*.ext

the first five letters of all file names are replaced
by 1999_.

Hints much appreciated.
________
Andreas

 

[Guest]

you will find the answer to your question in this group -
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/co....public.win2000.cmdprompt.admin&lang=en&cr=US

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Is there a way in Win2000 to rename a bunch of
files in one swoop ? The ren command doesn't seem
to work the same way it did under DOS. When I do

ren *.ext 1999_*.ext

the first five letters of all file names are replaced
by 1999_.

Hints much appreciated.
________
Andreas

What you actually wish to do? Please give an example.

 

[APawlik]

What you actually wish to do? Please give an example.

Sorry, didn't see your answer until today. Hope
you'll see mine now.

I need to rename lots of files by adding something at the beginning,
changing the filenames from, say
abc.ext
bcd.ext
cde.ext
to
1999_abc.ext
1999_bdc.ext
1999_cde.ext

Thank you for your interest.
________
Andreas

 

[Rob Stow]

Sorry, didn't see your answer until today. Hope
you'll see mine now.

I need to rename lots of files by adding something at the beginning,
changing the filenames from, say
abc.ext
bcd.ext
cde.ext
to
1999_abc.ext
1999_bdc.ext
1999_cde.ext

Thank you for your interest.
________
Andreas

Get all of the original filenames into a text file with something
like this:
dir /b ???.ext >list.txt

Then run this:
for /f "delims=" %i in (list.txt) do rename "%i" "1999_%i"

 

[j9]

Sadly, this is the kind of thing that I keep Unix4Dos or Perl4Dos on the
computer for....

 

[Robert Roland]

for /f "delims=" %i in (list.txt) do rename "%i" "1999_%i"

Couldn't he simply do it directly?

for %i in (*.*) do rename "%i" "1999_%i"

 

[APawlik]

Couldn't he simply do it directly?

for %i in (*.*) do rename "%i" "1999_%i"

You're the men, Robert and Rob! Thank you very much.
Where does one find that stuff ? Wrote a lot of batch files in DOS
but this is new to me.
________
Andreas