Need help renaming large amounts of files
Posted: 27 Mar 2010 19:27
I need to rename files that have "&" in the name and replace with "and". I'm using dir /s /a | find /i "&" to find all of the file names.
Thanks
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@echo off &setlocal
for /f "delims=" %%a in ('dir /b /s^|findstr /c:"&"') do set "fullname=%%a" &set "name=%%~nxa" &call :process
pause
goto :eof
:process
set "newname=%name:&=and%"
ren "%fullname%" "%newname%"
goto :eof
Don't forget all the quotes. Otherwise some of the ampersands will be missinterpreted.
<EDIT Sorry, I've not observed the syntax of ren. Fixed now. />
Regards
aGerman