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Batch file renaming
Name: Bob8788 Date: May 18, 2008 at 12:27:56 Pacific OS: Windows CPU/Ram: 512 Product: Tiom
Comment:
I have a bunch of files named Invoice # xxxx.PDF that I would like to change to be Invoice xxxx.PDF. Does anyone know how to do that with a bash script? So far I have been thwarted in every attempt.
Name: Bob8788 Date: May 18, 2008 at 12:28:21 Pacific
Reply:
I use InnoRename to rename my huge picture files from my photo and my mp3 files too. Great program to try (find it there www.innoplanet.com). It can be programed and you can do a lot of combination easily. Try it.
The question belongs to the Programming Forum, but the following batch script (not bash!) does the job. That works in Win NT/2K/XP only NOT under Win 9X/ME.
@echo off & setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion for %%j in (invoice*.pdf) do ( set file=%%~nxj set file=!file:# =! echo ren "%%j" "!file!" ) :: End_Of_Batch
When you are sure it works as you planned, remove the echo in front of ren to make the renaming effective.
However I don't understand why you can't use your great InnoRename to do the job.
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