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Rename filename by removing first part to end

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Name: MrQ
Date: October 6, 2009 at 01:42:33 Pacific
OS: Windows XP
Subcategory: Software Problems
Comment:

I want to change the filename by moving the first part of the filename to the end of the filename in a batch.

example:
20090101 - xxxxx - aaaaa.pdf
to
xxxxxxx - aaaaaa - 20090101.pdf

does anyone know a solution for this?



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Name: Ewen
Date: October 6, 2009 at 04:02:10 Pacific
Reply:

Post this in the Programming Forum... linkon the right of this page.

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Response Number 2
Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: October 6, 2009 at 04:51:38 Pacific
Reply:

This is hardwired to work on PDF files.

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@echo off & setLocal EnableDELAYedExpansion

for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in ('dir/b/a-d *.pdf') do (
for /f "tokens=1-3 delims=- " %%i in ("%%~Na") do (
ren "%%a" "%%j - %%k - %%i%%~Xa"
)
)


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