Dwight said:
I've got some file that are named "blah1(foo).txt" "blah2(foo).txt" etc..
how do I rename them to just "blah.txt"
It's a bunch o' files.
Parsing is easy with a for loop.
Do you want to get of the parenthes *and* the number?
::StripPar.cmd::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
@echo off&setlocal
for /F "delims=" %%A in ('dir *.txt /B') do (
for /F "tokens=1 delims=()0123456789" %%B in ("%%~nA") do (
if not exist "%%B%%~xA" (
ren "%%~fA" "%%B%%~xA"
) else (
echo Can't rename "%%~fA" to "%%B%%~xA", already present.
)
)
)
::StripPar.cmd::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
If it are only the parenthes, then drop the numbers in the second for.
The first for iterates all through the files, the second splits at any
of the delims, so only the first element is storred in %%B.
==screen=copy========================================================
C:\test\1>..\strippar.cmd
Can't rename "C:\test\1\blah2(foo).txt" to "blah.txt", already present.
C:\test\1>dir blah*.txt
Verzeichnis von C:\test\1
30.10.2004 23:12 2 blah.txt
30.10.2004 23:12 2 blah2(foo).txt
==screen=copy========================================================
HTH
