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munge83
munge83

Reputation: 153

.bat rename files name remove first x characters and last x characters

I need to rename files in some folder, like explained it needs to rename file names in one folder by removing first number of x characters and last number of x characters I set. Can someone show me how to do that?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 23326

Answers (1)

Eitan T
Eitan T

Reputation: 32930

Here you go:

@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
set X=3
set FOLDER_PATH=.
pushd %FOLDER_PATH%
for %%f in (*) do if %%f neq %~nx0 (
    set "filename=%%~nf"
    set "filename=!filename:~%X%,-%X%!"
    ren "%%f" "!filename!%%~xf"
)
popd

This script enters the folder (specified by FOLDER_PATH) and trims the first and last X characters from the filename of each file (leaving its extension as is). Modify X and FOLDER_PATH as necessary.

Upvotes: 11

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