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Name: ging
Date: July 31, 2008 at 12:35:14 Pacific
OS: xp
CPU/Ram: 1000
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I have tons of excel files to rename. All excel files doesn't have a regular naming conversion. for example there are asbd.xls fdsfdh.xls

I need to change all 3000 files to something in order like 1.xls, 2.xls and up to 3000.xls

Is there a batch files that can do that?

Thx in adavnace.



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Name: jefro
Date: July 31, 2008 at 15:55:56 Pacific
Reply:

There are tons of ways. I do simple ways like put all the file names into a text file then use that test file to serve as input to the next rename command.

"Best Practices", Event viewer, host file, perfmon, are in my top 10


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Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: July 31, 2008 at 18:22:19 Pacific
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@echo off
setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion

for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in ('dir/b/a-d *.XLS') do (
set /a N+=1
ren %%a !N!.XLS
)


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