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Simple batch script. Need Help.

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Name: SeekingWisdom
Date: June 26, 2008 at 14:19:54 Pacific
OS: WindowsXPSP3
CPU/Ram: 2GB
Manufacturer/Model: Dell
Comment:

Hello.
I'm a complete newb to scripting and would like some help. What I'm trying to accomplish is just simply prefixing information to a file name.
Example:
File1 to old_File1
File2 to old_File2
etc...

I tried.

@echo off
RENAME "c:\PATH\To\Files\*.txt" "Old_*.txt"

It doesn't work.. it renamed two files, removed some characters in the. It didn't work at all how expected and it also failed how I did not expect it to either.

Please help!

Thank you!


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Name: devil_himself
Date: June 26, 2008 at 19:39:24 Pacific
Reply:

@echo off
setlocal
set src=c:\test
pushd "%src%"
for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('dir /b /s /a-d *.txt') do (ren "%%a" "old_%%~na%%~xa")


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Name: SeekingWisdom
Date: June 27, 2008 at 07:04:01 Pacific
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Thanks. I appreciate it.


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