windows batch file rename

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I have some file such as AAA a001 jpg  BBB a002 jpg  CCC a003 jpg in Windows 7 and I m trying to use batch to rename these file to a001 AAA jpg  a002 BBB jpg  a003 CCC jpg   Just to swap the content between     I have been searching for a while  but still don t know how to do this  Can anyone help   Thanks

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Use REN Command  Ren is for rename  ren   where the file is located     the new name     example  ren C  Users  amp username  Desktop aaa txt bbb txt      it will change aaa txt to bbb txt   Your code will be    ren  file located AAA a001 jpg a001 AAA jpg  ren  file located BBB a002 jpg a002 BBB jpg  ren  file located CCC a003 jpg a003 CCC jpg   and so on  IT WILL NOT WORK IF THERE IS SPACES    Hope it helps  D

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as Itsproinc said  the REN command works   but if your file path name has spaces  use quotes      example   ren C  Users  amp username  Desktop my file txt not my file txt   add      ren  C  Users  amp username  Desktop my file txt   not my file txt    hope it helps

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echo off pushd  pathToYourFolder     exit  b for  f  eol   delims     F in   dir  b  a-d     jpg   do     for  f  tokens 1  eol   delims      A in      nF   do ren    F      nB   A   xF    popd   Note  The name is split at the first occurrence of    If a file is named  part1 part2 part3 jpg   then it will be renamed to  part2 part3 part1 jpg

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I rename in code  echo off  setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion  for   a in    txt  do       REM echo   a     set x   a     set mes  x  17 3       if  mes   JAN           set mes 01            if  mes   ENE           set mes 01            if  mes   FEB           set mes 02            if  mes   MAR           set mes 03            if  mes   APR           set mes 04            if  mes   MAY           set mes 05            if  mes   JUN           set mes 06            if  mes   JUL           set mes 07            if  mes   AUG           set mes 08            if  mes   SEP           set mes 09            if  mes   OCT           set mes 10            if  mes   NOV           set mes 11            if  mes   DEC           set mes 12            ren   a  x  20 4  mes  x  15 2  txt       echo  x  20 4  mes  x  15 2  txt

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I am assuming you know the length of the part before the   and after the underscore  as well as the extension  If you don t it might be more complex than a simple substring   cd C  path to the files for  f   a IN   dir  b   jpg   do   set p  a  0 3  set q  a  4 4  set b  p  q jpg ren  a  b     I just came up with this script  and I did not test it  Check out this and that for more info   IF you want to assume you don t know the positions of the   and the lengths and the extension  I think you could do something with for loops to check the index of the    then the last index of the    wrap it in a goto thing and make it work  If you re willing to go through that trouble  I d suggest you use WindowsPowerShell  or Cygwin  at least  for your own sake  or install a more advanced scripting language  think Python Perl  you ll get more support either way

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I found this solution via PowerShell    dir   rename-item -NewName     name -replace  replaceME   MyNewTxt    This will rename parts of all the files in the current folder

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