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Ribo01
Ribo01

Reputation: 59

renaming files to a new name folder using batch script

Have tried to rename files in a folder with this script, but its seems not to work

@echo off
SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
SET old=*.txt
SET new="c:\path to file that contains the listed names" 
for /f "tokens=*" %%f in ('dir /b *.txt') do (
   SET newname=%%f
   SET newname=!newname:%old%=%new%!
   move "%%f" "!newname!" 
)

what am trying to achieve is my script should pick set of listed names in a file and rename each file in the specified folder accordingly

Upvotes: 0

Views: 588

Answers (2)

Aacini
Aacini

Reputation: 67206

First you said you want to rename each file "accordingly" (accordingly to what?), and later in a comment you said you try to rename files "with a set of listed names in a file". This point cause several additional questions: Have this file one name in each line? Must the first file listed by dir /b *.txt match the first name listed in the file, and so on? Any other option? (Why do you use a move command to do a "rename"?).

Because the objective is not clear, we can not said if your code is right or not. However, this is what your code does. Suppose the first file is "firstFile.txt"; then this section:

SET newname=%%f
SET newname=!newname:%old%=%new%!
move "%%f" "!newname!"

is executed this way:

SET newname=firstFile.txt
SET newname=!newname:*.txt="c:\path to file that contains the listed names"!

Previous line replace from the beginning of newname until ".txt" (that is, the entire value) by "c:\path to file that contains the listed names", so the next line is executed this way:

move "firstFile.txt" ""c:\path to file that contains the listed names""

that correctly should move the file into the given path even if it contains a pair of quotes at each side.

If the objective would be "Rename files in a folder to the names listed in a text file one-by-one", then you must do a merge between two lists: the file list created by dir /b *.txt and the name list stored in the file.

@echo off
SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
SET old=*.txt
SET new="c:\path to file that contains the listed names" 
< %new% (for /f "tokens=*" %%f in ('dir /b %old%') do (
   ren Read the next name from the redirected input file
   SET /P newname=
   ren "%%f" "!newname!" 
))

If this is not what you want, please clearly describe the desired process...

Upvotes: 1

Soheil
Soheil

Reputation: 837

test this script

 @echo off
    set prefix=new

    setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
    for /f "delims=" %%a in ('dir *.txt /b') do (
                                      set name=%%~Na
                                      set newName=%prefix%!name:~0,1!X!name:~1,2!!name:~3!
                                      ren "%%a" "!newName!%%~Xa")

Upvotes: 1

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