I'd like to rename a large number of files within a folder on a WinXP system, preferably using a batch file.
The files are currently named like this:
Vacation2010 001.jpg
Vacation2010 002.jpg
Vacation2010 003.jpg
And I'd like to change them to:
December 001.jpg
December 002.jpg
December 003.jpg
How can I perform this operation??
@echo off
SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
SET old=Vacation2010
SET new=December
for /f "tokens=*" %%f in ('dir /b *.jpg') do (
SET newname=%%f
SET newname=!newname:%old%=%new%!
move "%%f" "!newname!"
)
What this does is it loops over all .jpg files in the folder where the batch file is located and replaces the Vacation2010 with December inside the filenames.
dir /b *.jpg >file.bat
This will give you lines such as:
Vacation2010 001.jpg
Vacation2010 002.jpg
Vacation2010 003.jpg
Edit file.bat in your favorite Windows text-editor, doing the equivalent of:
s/Vacation2010(.+)/rename "&" "December \1"/
That's a regex; many editors support them, but none that come default with Windows (as far as I know). You can also get a command line tool such as sed or perl which can take the exact syntax I have above, after escaping for the command line.
The resulting lines will look like:
rename "Vacation2010 001.jpg" "December 001.jpg"
rename "Vacation2010 002.jpg" "December 002.jpg"
rename "Vacation2010 003.jpg" "December 003.jpg"
You may recognize these lines as rename commands, one per file from the original listing. ;) Run that batch file in cmd.exe.
you can do this easily without manual editing or using fancy text editors. Here's a vbscript.
Set objFS = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
strFolder="c:\test"
Set objFolder = objFS.GetFolder(strFolder)
For Each strFile In objFolder.Files
If objFS.GetExtensionName(strFile) = "jpg" Then
strFileName = strFile.Name
If InStr(strFileName,"Vacation2010") > 0 Then
strNewFileName = Replace(strFileName,"Vacation2010","December")
strFile.Name = strNewFileName
End If
End If
Next
save as myscript.vbs and
C:\test> cscript //nologo myscript.vbs
@ECHO off & SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion
SET "_dir=" REM Must finish with '\'
SET "_ext=jpg"
SET "_toEdit=Vacation2010"
SET "_with=December"
FOR %%f IN ("%_dir%*.%_ext%") DO (
CALL :modifyString "%_toEdit%" "%_with%" "%%~Nf" fileName
RENAME "%%f" "!fileName!%%~Xf"
)
GOTO end
:modifyString what with in toReturn
SET "__in=%~3"
SET "__in=!__in:%~1=%~2!"
IF NOT "%~4" == "" (
SET %~4=%__in%
) ELSE (
ECHO %__in%
)
EXIT /B
:end
This script allows you to change the name of all the files that contain Vacation2010
with the same name, but with December
instead of Vacation2010
.
If you copy and paste the code, you have to save the .bat
in the same folder of the photos.
If you want to save the script in another directory [E.G. you have a favorite folder for the utilities] you have to change the value of _dir
with the path of the photos.
If you have to do the same work for other photos [or others files changig _ext
] you have to change the value of _toEdit
with the string you want to change [or erase] and the value of _with
with the string you want to put instead of _toEdit
[SET "_with="
if you simply want to erase the string specified in _toEdit
].
You don't need a batch file, just do this from powershell :
powershell -C "gci | % {rni $_.Name ($_.Name -replace 'Vacation2010', 'December')}"