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Woodstock
Woodstock

Reputation: 22966

rename a file in a folder with a specific string vbs

Can some one please help explain how I can write some vbs script that searches for files with a particular string and renames them?

For example, say I have a folder c:\test

I want to search in c:\test for every file with the word John and replace with say the word Dave...

e.g. Contents were:

john_list.txt auto.john.doc

After script:

dave_list.txt auto.dave.doc

Can you help?

Thanks!

SOLUTION:

Dim sName
Dim fso
Dim fol

' create the filesystem object
Set fso = WScript.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

' get current folder
Set fol = fso.GetFolder("c:\TEST")

' go thru each files in the folder
For Each fil In fol.Files
' check if the file name contains underscore
If InStr(1, fil.Name, "john") <> 0 Then
    ' replace underscore with space
    sName = Replace(fil.Name, "john", "dave")
    ' rename the file
    fil.Name = sName
End If
Next

' echo the job is completed
WScript.Echo "Completed!"

Upvotes: 1

Views: 19831

Answers (1)

Ansgar Wiechers
Ansgar Wiechers

Reputation: 200573

For recursing into subfolders you need something like this. Replacing text in the name of the file can be done like this:

f.Name = Replace(f.Name, "john", "dave")

Upvotes: 3

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