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Batch script to rename files

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Name: karthikrm
Date: February 9, 2009 at 11:37:18 Pacific
OS: Windows XP
Subcategory: General
Comment:

Hi,

i want to rename all the files in my directory by stripping out the first 3 chars of the file. My files are of the type

C:\01 file1.jpg
C:\02 file2.jpg

I want to change them to

C:\file1.jpg
C:\file2.jpg.

Any pointers on how to write a DOS batch script to do this?

thanks in adance.



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Name: IVO
Date: February 9, 2009 at 12:33:19 Pacific
Reply:

:: MYREN.BAT  Usage: myren Folder_Name
@echo off & setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
pushd %*
for /F "delims=" %%j in ('dir /B *.jpg') do (
  set file=%%j
  ren "%%j" "!file:~3!"
)
popd
:: End_Of_Batch


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Response Number 2
Name: Curt R
Date: February 9, 2009 at 12:34:24 Pacific
Reply:

If you don't get a helpful reply quickly you can private message a computing.net member who goes under the name: Mechanix2Go

He's one of the best DOS based batchfilers I've ever met.


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Response Number 3
Name: Valerie (by Garibaldi)
Date: February 9, 2009 at 12:35:42 Pacific
Reply:

This question has been asked countless times, just do a search for Rename Files


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