Is there an easy way to rename a group of files already contained in a directory, using Python? Example: I have a directory full of *.doc files and I want to rename them in a consistent way. X.doc -> "new(X).doc" Y.doc -> "new(Y).doc" ...
I am trying to prefix a string (reference_) to the names of all the *.bmp files in all the directories as well sub-directories. The first time we run the silk script, it will create directories as well subdirectories, and under each subdirectory it will store each mobile application's sceenshot with .bmp extension. When I run the automa...
I like to create a batch file (winxp cmd) that recursively goes through a chose folder and sub folders and renames there files+folders with the following rules: from all file + folder names, all uppercase+lowercase "V" and "W" letters need to be replaced with letters "Y" and "Z". e.g. 11V0W must become 11Y0Z. I believe its possible...
There are multiple files in a directory that begin with prefix fgh, for example: fghfilea fghfileb fghfilec I want to rename all of them to begin with prefix jkl. Is there a single command to do that instead of renaming each file individually? ...
I have created a filing system containing folders as templates for re-creating a set of information to be used when we accept bookings and need a batch command to rename all files within a directory but in a very specific way. So to be more precise the directory contains: one file is an invoice template (PDF form) and another is a job d...
I have quite a lot of music files but their title attributes have the track numbers infront of them, like 01.TrackName, 02.TrackName. What is the best way to strip off integers from the file attributes? Edit: I am using windows and all music files are MP3. Any solution as batch files, c++ or .net etc will be appreciated. ...
Hi, I have a directory filled with files with random names. I'd like to be able to rename them 'file 1' 'file 2' etc based on chronological order, ie file creation date. I could be writing a short Python script but then I wouldn't learn anything. I was wondering if there's a clever 1 line command that can solve this. If anyone could poi...
I am using FileSystemWatcher in order renaming files within a Watched directory. The problem occurs if the number of files copied simultaneously to the watched directory exceeds the number of 50... The rename event is fired successfully for the first 50 files, but after that nothing happens Any suggestions please? ...
I have a bunch of files that are named 'something_12345.doc' (any 5-digit number, not necessarily 12345). I need to rename them all to just 'something.doc'. This is a Unix filesystem, and I suspect there's a way to do this with just one command... Can any Unix regular expressions guru help? Thanks! ...
I know there are a lot of things like this around, but either they don't work recursively or they are huge. This is what I got: find . -name "*.so" -exec mv {} `echo {} | sed s/.so/.dylib/` \; When I just run the find part it gives me a list of files. When I run the sed part it replaces any .so with .dylib. When I run them together t...
I need to write a batch to rename a folder in Program Files. I'm able to do it through the Explorer, so I guess I have all required rights. But when I write something like this in a command line : move "C:\Program Files\Ceebot4\train" train_old I get the following error : Access denied. Is it possible to do it ? ...
I want to make a .bat to copy & rename a file multiple times. I want to have a list of names, and an original file, then I want to copy that file and rename it for each name on the list. How I can do this using a .bat file? Also is it possible to run winrar fromthe .bat to .rar or .zip every file after copying/renaming? Example: $fi...
I have a folder with over 100,000 files, all numbered with the same stub, but without leading zeros, and the numbers aren't always contiguous (usually they are, but there are gaps) e.g: file-21.png, file-22.png, file-640.png, file-641.png, file-642.png, file-645.png, file-2130.png, file-2131.png, file-3012.png, etc. I would...
i have files named.. 82011.nsf 63113.nsf 55555.nsf i must rename each file to single.nsf (for example ren 82011.nsf to single.nsf) then use a program to act on that file (single.nsf) then rename the next file (63113.nsf to single.nsf) then use a program to act on that file (single.nsf) etc I want a batch file to do the nename, pau...
I'm using batch files to process text files with names of the form: CLL*1.txt, CLLM*2.txt located in a specific "download" folder. All files contain a string of the form: "File Reference : 0xxxx", where xxxx is a unique numerical identifier. I am trying, without much success, to use the following script to rename the file to CLL*xxxx...