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jimodoherty
jimodoherty

Reputation: 37

batch rename files with different file extensions to 1 extension

I'm recently new to batch scripting. I need to rename a few thousand files, each one having a different file extension to a single common extension. The files come off a machine like so:

1.2.840.113619.2.131.3171610912.1353091118.893703

which windows tells me is a type "893703" file because of the fullstop(.) position.

So I need to turn this example:

1.2.840.113619.2.131.3171610912.1353091118.893703
1.2.840.113619.2.131.3171610912.1353091118.907596
1.2.840.113619.2.131.3171610912.1353091118.920723
1.2.840.113619.2.131.3171610912.1353091118.932988
1.2.840.113619.2.131.3171610912.1353091118.945443

into this

1.2.840.113619.2.131.3171610912.1353091118.893703.IMA
1.2.840.113619.2.131.3171610912.1353091118.907596.IMA
1.2.840.113619.2.131.3171610912.1353091118.920723.IMA
1.2.840.113619.2.131.3171610912.1353091118.932988.IMA
1.2.840.113619.2.131.3171610912.1353091118.945443.IMA

I can edit the text string before the extension, and change a series of the same extension, but I'm not sure how to deal with files of different extensions.

I'm using Windows 7.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 990

Answers (1)

ChrisPatrick
ChrisPatrick

Reputation: 984

Run the following on the command line:

ren *.* *.*.IMA

Upvotes: 2

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