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renaming folders

#1 Post by joejames_786 » 28 Mar 2018 07:24

Hi

I request someone to help me convert this code of eGerman which renames only log files

Now can this code be altered to rename only folders without renaming its content

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@echo off &setlocal
set "numfile=a.txt"

set /p "n="<"%numfile%"
set /a "n=1%n%"

for /f "delims=" %%i in ('dir /a-d /b "*.log"^|findstr /vix "[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]\.log"') do (
  set /a "n+=1"
  set "f=%%~i"
  setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
  ren "!f!" "!n:~-5!.log"
  endlocal
)

>"%numfile%" echo %n:~-5%
please help

Thanx in advance
Last edited by aGerman on 28 Mar 2018 07:33, edited 1 time in total.
Reason: code formatting

Squashman
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Re: renaming folders

#2 Post by Squashman » 28 Mar 2018 07:50

Did you read the help files for the FOR and DIR commands? I am betting not because otherwise you would know what the original code is doing that was already given to you.

aGerman
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Re: renaming folders

#3 Post by aGerman » 28 Mar 2018 07:51

Untested:

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for /f "delims=" %%i in ('dir /ad /b ^|findstr /vx "[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]"') do (
  set /a "n+=1"
  set "f=%%~i"
  setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
  ren "!f!" "!n:~-5!"
  endlocal
)
The rest of the code should work unchanged.

Steffen

joejames_786
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Re: renaming folders

#4 Post by joejames_786 » 29 Mar 2018 09:29

yes steffen that worked fine

thank you

Happy Easter in Advance

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