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jks
jks

Reputation: 137

Renaming the folders by removing a specific string prefix to their names using for loop in cmd

I have 16 folders like:

Sample-2.1-1
Sample-2.2-1
Sample-2.3-1
.....
Sample-2.16-1

Those are inside a folder SVN for example

D:\SVN\Sample-2.1-1
D:\SVN\Sample-2.2-1
D:\SVN\Sample-2.3-1
.....
D:\SVN\Sample-2.16-1

Now I want to rename all these 16 folders by removing Sample- in their names such as:

2.1-1
2.2-1
2.3-1
.....
2.16-1

How could I do it using for command inside .

Upvotes: 0

Views: 263

Answers (1)

dbenham
dbenham

Reputation: 130819

pushd "d:\svn"
for /f "tokens=1*" %%A in ('dir /b /ad sample-*') do ren "%%A-%%B" "%%B"
popd

Or, in the off chance that you have a folder name like sample--xxxx, then

pushd "d:\svn"
for /d %%F in (sample-*) do for /f "tokens=1*" %%A in ("%%F") do ren "%%F" "%%B"
popd

Upvotes: 1

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