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Mass Renaming Files via Command Prompt

Source: http://superuser.com/questions/16007/how-can-i-mass-rename-files-from-the-command-line-or-using-a-3rd-party-tool Thanks to zdan of superuser.com tl;dr? Here’s the script: dir /B > fileList.txt for /f “tokens=1,2,3,4,5 delims=-” %i in (fileList.txt) DO ren “%i-%j-%k-%l-%m” “%i-flowers-%l-%m” rm fileList.txt  Enjoy. Now for the curious, read on. 😀 What those commands do are as follows: Create a list of the files in your current folder as a text file. Loops through the list of files and

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