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Renaming Multiple Files
Name: Psychedelicle Date: May 31, 2003 at 07:19:32 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: 1.8Ghz
Comment:
I want to rename multiple files in dos, file01.00 -> file01.rar file02.00 -> file02.rar...and so on
But write an exe program or script in notepade and run it in dos. i remember seeing 'echo' for every line that renamed the files, im unclear what the rest was. Please help me out, Thank You.
Name: Secret_Doom Date: June 1, 2003 at 09:33:55 Pacific
Reply:
You can use a batch file (.bat).
The following batch file will rename all files with extention .00 in the current directory (the directory from where you invoke it) to extention .rar. If that's what you want, just cut-paste the following code to a text file, save it with a .bat extention and run it from the directory where the files are located (it would be neat to save the batch file on that directory already).
@echo off for %%F in (*.00) do ren "%%F" "%%~nF.rar"
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