Change first character in filename

[msabeal]

Hi,

Need help to replace one character in filename, but only the first.

In Explorer the first character its a square and in DOS its ?. Now I want to change it to O, because I can´t move this file further to another directory with the software I want to use (Opalis Integration server).

The filename look like this
"square"uv10FEX.xml
"square"uv10FOA.xml
"square"uv10REG.xml
..
..

I want it like this
Ouv10FEX.xml
Ouv10FOA.xml
Ouv10REG.xml
..
..

Regards
Benny

[orange_batch]

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@echo off&setlocal enabledelayedexpansion

for %%x in ("C:\...\Target Folder\*.xml") do (
set "name=%%~nxx"
ren "%%~dpx?!name:~1!" O!name:~1!
)

[ghostmachine4]

here's a vbscript you can use

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Set objFS = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
strFolder="c:\test"
Set objFolder = objFS.GetFolder(strFolder)
Set objRE = New RegExp
objRE.IgnoreCase = False
objRE.Pattern = "uv\d+[A-Z]{3}.xml"
For Each strFile In objFolder.Files
   If objFS.GetExtensionName(strFile) = "xml" Then      
      strFileName = strFile.Name
       Set Matches = objRE.Execute(strFile.Name)
       For Each Match in Matches   ' Iterate Matches collection.                       
           strFile.Name = "0"&Match
       Next   
   End If   
Next 

on the command line

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c:\test> cscript //nologo myscript.vbs

[ghostmachine4]

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for %%x in ("C:\...\Target Folder\*.xml") do (

this may change other xml files that doesn't have "square".

[msabeal]

@echo off&setlocal enabledelayedexpansion

for %%x in ("C:\...\Target Folder\*.xml") do (
set "name=%%~nxx"
ren "%%~dpx?!name:~1!" O!name:~1!
)


This script takes all *.xml files, even if they starts with other character, only file that start with "square", shall be changed.

There are a lot of files that have the same beginning except the first character.

[orange_batch]

Mm sorry I didn't fully test it.

I can't help you if you don't post the actual square character causing this problem. I think it's solvable using some hack with TYPE.

[msabeal]

Some explanation about this problem.

This sign (Square) is the swedish character Ö. A file has been received in our enviroment on a ftp server. In the translation, it change to this square. I put one filename in here (from Explorer), I hope it will help.

�UV10FEX.xml

[orange_batch]

Okay, DOS has serious problems with putting unicode into a batch file, so do this.

Copy this � character. Open Command Prompt (MS-DOS), and type:

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set char=

Right click the window, paste and press enter.

Save this batch somewhere:

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@echo off&setlocal enabledelayedexpansion

for %%x in ("C:\...\Target Folder\%char%*.txt") do (
set "name=%%~nxx"
ren "%%x" O!name:~1!
)

Change the Target Folder, it's similar to before just slightly modified.

Navigate to where the batch is and run it.

[msabeal]

Okay, DOS has serious problems with putting unicode into a batch file, so do this.

Copy this � character. Open Command Prompt (MS-DOS), and type:

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set char=

Right click the window, paste and press enter.

Save this batch somewhere:

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@echo off&setlocal enabledelayedexpansion

for %%x in ("C:\...\Target Folder\%char%*.txt") do (
set "name=%%~nxx"
ren "%%x" O!name:~1!
)

Change the Target Folder, it's similar to before just slightly modified.

Navigate to where the batch is and run it.

Thanks !!

Now it works fine, have try other file name to...

Regards Benny