FOAK: XP mass file rename

I have hundreds of files in a folder (on windows xp) which all have
names such as

Time 1 Add.png (i.e. capital letters and spaces)

I want to do a mass rename so that such a file would subsequently be
called

time_1_add.png

Anyone suggest a utility that might handle this requirement?

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Any use ?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/320167/

 

Not really thanks - I want to retain the original "structure" of the
name - the article looks as though it will rename multiple files to have
the same name as each other with a number appended.

thanks though

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Jeremy wrote

Standard fare for a *nix shell.

Install cygwin.

 

http://www.alatar.de/projects/renamefiles/index.html

It's bloody good, been using it for years. Make sure you look at the
"preview" option, with "Only show files that will be changed" selected
before you commit. Then you can see what the files *will* look like.

 

I feared that might be the suggestion - I guess we're talking an 'mv'
command with some [ABCDE] [abcde] type construct?

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jeremy
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They're PaintShopPro files right? Hmm, I don't think PSP Batch
conversion allows a file name change in that manner, but, IIRC
Photoshop Batch conversion might. I don't have it installed here to
check.

 

Not sure of the origins - it's part of a set of business icons that I
just bought. There are also .gif files in there too - really looking for
a generic file management utility rather than something within another
application if at all possible.


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jeremy
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don't you know any scripting languages?

about 6 lines or Perl ought to suffice.

Hell, you could bodge something in ASP or PHP if you're desperate.

 

Have you forgotten who you're talking to?

 

Jeremy wrote

Why? Having some form of *nix on your system gives a you very powerful
set of simple administrative tools and it seems to me that you are in
need of some.

It is *nix, there are at least 57 different ways of doing it.

 

Exactly what I wanted Dan - works a treat - ta.

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Dabble with ksh as required but it's not part of my "day job". In the
time it took to download and install cygwin, I had the job done using
Dan's suggestion.

I was desperate, but not *that* desperate


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Jeremy wrote

Yebbut you ain't learned anything have you? You are just as fucking
iggerrant now as you were an hour ago.

6 lines is five lines of overkill anyway.

 

open a CMD prompt .. .navigate to the folder containing your files
type
rename "Time ? Add.png" time_?_add.png

press enter

Job done
HTH

 

easy in XP too
cmd prompt
rename "Time ? Add.png" time_?_add.png

 

Repeat 1365 times for that one folder.

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jeremy
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what are you on about ? That one line will rename all files matching those
filters in one hit.

 

PS bad form etc

try it create a folder with a couple of renamed txt files in matching your
original naming scheme then apply that command within that folder