Greetings, I am trying to rename files in multiple subdirectories, and break out the file name and the folder one level higher than the file into variables with dos under Windows 7 (or xp/vista). ie: 1. Find *.mkv files. 2. For each file, put file name (minus extension) into a variable 3. For each file, get the folder name the file is in and put that into a variable. I am having problems mainly with the getting of the folder that has the file in it b/c I can't be sure what token it will be. I started: :: GET LIST OF ALL FOLDERS CONTAINING A *.MKV FILE AND LOOP THROUGH EACH FOR /f "tokens=* delims=" %%a in ('dir/s/b/a-d \*.mkv') do ( :: CHECK TO SEE IF A FILE HAS ALREADY BEEN PROCESSED, IF SO SKIP IT AND MOVE ON IF EXIST "%%~dpa%%~na02%%~xa" ( ECHO File %%~na02%%~xa already exists...skipping it. )ELSE ( :: IF NEED TO BE PROCESSED RENAME THE FILE ADDING 02 TO THE MOVIE ren "%%a" "%%~na02%%~xa" ) pause echo. ) I run it the first time on a directory containing only a movie.mkv and it works great, it renames the movie.mkv to movie02.mkv. However, the next time around my logic looks for *.mkv and finds movie02.mkv, then I adds an 02 to that making it movie0202.mkv. So, if I can find out the name of the folder holding the movie.mkv, that will always be the movie name and I can set that to say if exist %MOVIEFOLDER%02.mkv, I will know if I processed it. This all leads me to where I have no idea how to get the folder holding that file (I am sure I have to not use tokens=* but don't know how to say "last token".) Any ideas? Does that make any sense? Thanks to all.

if you can download and install gawk for windows (see my sig) BEGIN{ FS="[.]" } { filename=$(NF-1) ext = $NF if ( filename !~ /20$/){ newfile = filename"20."ext cmd = "move "$0" "newfile system(cmd) close(cmd) } } save the above as myscript.awk c:\test> dir /b/s *.mkv | gawk -f myscript.awk GNU win32 packages

That might work. I was planning on using that direcotry variable for other things though. It looks like that script will only do the rename, can you grab the folder name before the *.mkv file and set a dos variable for me to use again?

well, you can get the path in gawk itself and do what you want inside gawk. otherwise, just print out the path, then in dos, use for loop to get the results eg BEGIN{ FS="[.]" } { filename = $1 ext = $2 m=split(filename,f,"\\") gsub(f[m],"",filename) path = filename if ( filename !~ /20$/){ newfile = $1"20."ext cmd = "move "$0" "newfile print cmd # system(cmd) #uncomment to use # close(cmd) #uncomment to use # do something with variable 'path' print "the path for " $0 " is: " path } } output C:\test>dir /s/b *.mkv | gawk -f test.awk move C:\test\movie.mkv C:\test\movie20.mkv the path for C:\test\movie.mkv is: C:\test\ move C:\test\movie1.mkv C:\test\movie120.mkv the path for C:\test\movie1.mkv is: C:\test\ move C:\test\tmp\movie120.mkv C:\test\tmp\movie12020.mkv the path for C:\test\tmp\movie120.mkv is: C:\test\tmp\ to get results in DOS , use for loop ( find out yourself) @echo off for /F <set options here> %%a in ('dir /s/b *.mkv ^| gawk -f test.awk') do ( echo %%a ) GNU win32 packages | Gawk

I can get the full path in dos with the for command, but I need to be able to break apart the full path to just get the last direcotry in that full path: d:\tmp\test\stuff\file.txt I need to be able to set mydir=%var% where %var% equals in this case, the "stuff' directory. That make sense?

so you just want to get the directory just above? then try this BEGIN{ FS="[.]" } { filename = $1 ext = $2 m=split(filename,f,"\\") path = f[m-1] if ( filename !~ /20$/){ newfile = $1"20."ext cmd = "move "$0" "newfile print cmd # system(cmd) # close(cmd) # do something with variable 'path' eg print path , so that in your batch , use for loop to get results print "the path for " $0 " is: " path } } output C:\test>dir /s/b *.mkv | gawk -f test.awk move C:\test\movie.mkv C:\test\movie20.mkv the path for C:\test\movie.mkv is: test move C:\test\movie1.mkv C:\test\movie120.mkv the path for C:\test\movie1.mkv is: test move C:\test\tmp\movie12.mkv C:\test\tmp\movie1220.mkv the path for C:\test\tmp\movie12.mkv is: tmp GNU win32 packages | Gawk

Forget DOS @echo off & setLocal enableDELAYedexpansion for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in ('dir/b/s/a-d c:\files') do ( set name=%%~Na set fold=%%~DPa call :sub1 echo !name! is in !fold! ) goto :eof :sub1 ::set fold=%1 :loop for /f "tokens=1* delims=\\ " %%f in ("!fold!") do ( ::echo %%g if "%%g" neq "" ( set fold=%%g goto :loop ) set fold=!fold:~0,-1! ) goto :eof ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2