Rename multiple files in cmd

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If I have multiple files in a directory and want to append something to their filenames  but not to the extension  how would I do this   I have tried the following  with test files file1 txt and file2 txt   ren   txt  1 1 txt   This renames the files to file1 1 txt and file2 txt1 1 txt  I want the files to be file1 1 1 txt and file2 1 1 txt  Will this be possible from cmd or do I need to have a bat file to do this  What about PowerShell

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I tried pasting Endoro s command  Thanks Endoro  directly into the command prompt to add a prefix to files but encountered an error  Solution was to reduce    to    so   for  f  delims    i in   dir  b  a-d       do ren    i   Service Enviro   ni  xi

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I found the following in a small comment in Supperuser com       JacksOnF1re - New information technique added to my answer  You can   actually delete your Copy of prefix using an obscure forward slash   technique  ren  Copy of  txt               Of How does the Windows RENAME command interpret wildcards  See in this thread  the answer of dbenham   My problem was slightly different  I wanted to add a Prefix to the file and remove from the beginning what I don t need  In my case I had several hundred of enumerated files such as   SKMBT C36019101512510 001 jpg SKMBT C36019101512510 002 jpg SKMBT C36019101512510 003 jpg SKMBT C36019101512510 004 jpg       Now I wanted to respectively rename them all to  Album 07 picture      A07 P001 jpg A07 P002 jpg A07 P003 jpg A07 P004 jpg       I did it with a single command line and it worked like charm   ren  SKMBT C36019101512510                        A06 P       Note    Quoting     the   lt Name Scheme gt   is not an option  it does not work otherwise  in our example   SKMBT C36019101512510      and                   A06 P     were quoted  I had to exactly count the number of characters I want to remove and leave space for my new characters  The A06 P actually replaced 2510  and the SKMBT C3601910151 was removed  by using exactly the number of slashes                    17 characters   I recommend copying your files  making a backup   before applying the above

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I was puzzled by this also    didn t like the parentheses that windows puts in when you rename in bulk  In my research I decided to write a script with PowerShell instead  Super easy and worked like a charm  Now I can use it whenever I need to batch process file renaming    which is frequent  I take hundreds of photos and the camera names them IMG1234 JPG etc     Here is the script I wrote     filename  bulk file rename ps1   by  subcan   PowerShell script to rename multiple files within a folder to a    name that increments without       create counter  int   1   ask user for what they want  regex   Read-Host  Regex for files you are looking for  ex  IMG  JPG    file name   Read-Host  What is new file name  without extension  ex  New Image    extension   Read-Host  What extension do you want  ex   JPG     get a total count of the files that meet regex  total   Get-ChildItem -Filter  regex   measure   while loop to rename all files with new name while   int -le  total Count          diplay where in loop you are     Write-Host  within while loop   int         create variable for concatinated new name -         int ToString 000  ensures 3 digit number 001  010  etc      new name    file name    int ToString 000   extension       get the first occurance and rename     Get-ChildItem -Filter  regex   select -First 1   Rename-Item -NewName  new name       display renamed file name     Write-Host  Renamed to   new name       increment counter      int       I hope that this is helpful to someone out there   subcan

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for  f  delims     i in   dir  b  a-d   txt   do ren     i      ni 1 1   xi    If you use the simple for  loop without the  f parameter  already renamed files will be again renamed

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echo off for   f in    txt  do       ren     nf   xf      nf 1 1   xf

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The below command would do the job   forfiles  M   txt  C  cmd  c rename  file    fname 1 1 txt      source  Rename file extensions in bulk

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Step 1   Select all files  ctrl   A   Step 2    Then choose rename option    Step 3    Choose your filename    for ex  myfile  it automatically rename to myfile  01  myfile  02          If you want to replace spaces  amp  bracket   continue step 4  Step 4   Open Windows Powershell from your current folder    Step 5   For replace empty space to underscore       dir   rename-item -NewName     name -replace  Regex   Escape             Step 6   For replace open bracket   dir   rename-item -NewName     name -replace  Regex   Escape            For replace close bracket   dir   rename-item -NewName     name -replace  Regex   Escape

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Make sure that there are more   than there are characters in the longest name   ren   txt                               1 1 txt    See How does the Windows RENAME command interpret wildcards  for more info   New Solution - 2014 12 01  For those who like regular expressions  there is JREN BAT - a hybrid JScript batch command line utility that will run on any version of Windows from XP forward   jren                amp  1 1   fm    txt    or  jren          txt      1 1 1 2   i

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This works for your specific case    ren file  txt  file  1 1 txt

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Try this Bulk Rename Utility It works well  Maybe not reinvent the wheel  If you don t necessary need a script this is a good way to go

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