FILES - Need to Rename Several Files At Once

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Greg Purvis

Hi.

XP has a method for renaming a series of files so that they have all the
same name and are then numbered, but I need to do something else, and I'm
not sure how.

I'm converting documents from an old word processor to MSWord and maybe Word
itself can do this, but I was first looking for some kind of system batch
file.

I want to change, for an example,

Monday.JAN
Tuesday.JAN
Wednesday.JAN

to

Monday JAN.DOC
Tuesday JAN.DOC
Wednesday JAN.DOC

That sort of thing. There are hundreds of files and I'm hoping someone
knows of a way to bulk-rename the files that way, rather than having a
folder full of Monday JAN (1).DOC, Monday JAN (2).DOC, and so on.

Thanks in advance for any help.

GP
 
Hi.

XP has a method for renaming a series of files so that they have all the
same name and are then numbered, but I need to do something else, and I'm
not sure how.

I'm converting documents from an old word processor to MSWord and maybe Word
itself can do this, but I was first looking for some kind of system batch
file.

I want to change, for an example,

Monday.JAN
Tuesday.JAN
Wednesday.JAN

to

Monday JAN.DOC
Tuesday JAN.DOC
Wednesday JAN.DOC

That sort of thing. There are hundreds of files and I'm hoping someone
knows of a way to bulk-rename the files that way, rather than having a
folder full of Monday JAN (1).DOC, Monday JAN (2).DOC, and so on.

Thanks in advance for any help.

GP
Click to expand...
Open a command window.
CD <directory where files are>
Dir *.jan
Ren *.jan *jan.doc
Dir

Monday.jan.doc
Tuesday.jan.doc
Wednesday.jan.doc

There are third party tools out there that may help.
See http://www.tucows.com or http://www.zdnet.com/

Peter Hutchison
Windows FAQ
http://www.pcguru.plus.com/
 
Hi.

I wrote earlier with a question about renaming files, and I found two
terrific utilities:

Bulk Rename Utility 2.0.3.1 http://www.tucows.com/preview/294131.html

and

Rename File Extensions http://www.leeos.com/rename_extensions.html

These two freeware utilities work well together: Once a dot-extension is
changed, Bulk Rename Utility is excellent for making any other changes one
needs to make when renaming a file.

The authour of BRU said in an email that his utility will change suffixes
too; I just haven't figured out that part yet. The rest was very easy to
learn and use.

Just passing that info along.

GP
 
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