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Name: bellams
Date: December 2, 2008 at 08:11:13 Pacific
OS: NT
CPU/Ram: All
Product: All
Comment:

I have a directory with a number of files in it. e.g. 1234.pdf 2234.pdf 3234.pdf and so on I want to change the file names on these file using a batch file that i can schedule over night. I want the files to read test-1234.pdf test-2234.pdf test-3234.pdf Can anyone help?



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Name: IVO
Date: December 2, 2008 at 13:08:53 Pacific
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In the batch below replace My_Dir with the path you want

:: MYREN.BAT Usage: myren string
@echo off
if "%*"=="" (echo. no renaming string & goto :EOF)
pushd "My_Dir"
for /F "delims=" %%j in ('dir /B *.pdf') do ren "%%j" "%*-%%j"
popd
:: [End_Of_Batch]

Example: myren test


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Response Number 2
Name: bellams
Date: December 3, 2008 at 01:54:19 Pacific
Reply:

You're a star.
I don't fully understand how this works but it works!

Sean


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