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Removing %20 From Filenames
Name: Jonny1234 Date: April 22, 2004 at 18:38:50 Pacific OS: W2K SP4 CPU/Ram: P4/256MB
Comment:
Hi,
I would like to write a batch file to rename files which have %20 in place of a space character in their names. Is this possible?
Name: Jonny1234 Date: April 22, 2004 at 21:03:52 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks for the advice.
Can you do it in DOS then?
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Response Number 3
Name: Mick C Date: April 23, 2004 at 02:13:58 Pacific
Reply:
%20 is as you say a space in a long file name. If you do not like the look of it use an underscore _ in future!
Other than MS-DOS 7.10 this is not supported by DOS. And NT as Wengier has tried to point out does not always handle such modern commands in the same as DOS.
Try the REN command
i.e. REN test%20one test_one
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Response Number 4
Name: SpiderMSN Date: May 4, 2004 at 05:30:01 Pacific
Reply:
Yes you can, run edit.com and save the file with a space in it.
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