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Wally Walters
Wally Walters

Reputation: 75

Removing a filename with two extensions

I have many audio files with the extensions ".lossy.cue" and ".lossy.wav" and would like to remove the ".lossy" part. It seems to me the commands would be 

ren "*.lossy.cue" "*.cue"
ren "*.lossy.wav" "*.wav"

but that has no effect. I know I can do it in four steps like so:

ren *.cue *.
ren *.lossy *.cue
ren *.wav *.
ren *.lossy *.wav

but then I have to move any other files in the folder with the ".cue" or ".wav" extensions first. Is there a simple way to remove this specific string in the filename without resorting to PowerShell?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 213

Answers (1)

samuelnj
samuelnj

Reputation: 1637

you can do this:

ren *.lossy.wav *.
ren *.lossy *.wav
ren *.lossy.cue *.
ren *.lossy

Also, more information on the ren command: https://superuser.com/questions/475874/how-does-the-windows-rename-command-interpret-wildcards

Upvotes: 2

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