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Cimorene ([personal profile] cimorene) wrote2005-03-11 08:41 am

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i found information on how to bulk rename file extensions using ms dos here.

but i have a question for programmers.

RENAME [drive:][path][directoryname1 | filename1] [directoryname2 | filename2]

EXAMPLES

Rename all text files to files with .bak extension.

rename *.txt *.bak


does that mean you include the path to the directory you want in the command like

c:\documents\pictures\*.jpg *.bmp

?
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[identity profile] anatsuno.livejournal.com 2005-03-11 12:08 pm (UTC)(link)
just for future ref if you ever wanna try the one i was talking about:

http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Main_Intro.php

iirc, to rename extensions you have to first tell it to suppress the extension entirely on the bunch of files you wanna treat, then apply the new extension on them. it's a two stop process, but the utility is so fast it doesn't really matter.