{"id":683,"date":"2010-03-18T13:22:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T07:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kedar.nitty-witty.com\/?p=683"},"modified":"2010-11-13T03:01:36","modified_gmt":"2010-11-13T03:01:36","slug":"batch-script-to-add-remove-prefix-zero-pad-bulk-file-rename","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kedar.nitty-witty.com\/blog\/batch-script-to-add-remove-prefix-zero-pad-bulk-file-rename","title":{"rendered":"batch script to add remove prefix zero pad bulk file rename"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post has two batch scripts:
\n1. Batch script to rename files with zero padded number series-prefix<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/p>\n

2. Batch script to remove prefix of perticular length
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Batch script to rename files with zero padded number series-prefix<\/h2>\n

This script will accept file-type to be searched and lenght of zero-padded prefix to be attached.<\/p>\n

Usage: RenZeroPad.bat<\/p>\n

Consider you have to rename \/ arrange a lot of mp3 files in a perticular sequence:<\/p>\n

File names before execution:
\nfileX.mp3
\nfileY.mp3
\nfileZ.mp3<\/em><\/p>\n

Command on dos prompt: RenZeroPad.bat mp3 4<\/p>\n

File names with attached prefix:
\n0001 fileX.mp3
\n0002 fileY.mp3
\n0003 fileZ.mp3<\/em><\/p>\n

[ad#ad-2-300×250]<\/p>\n

The Batch Script to add zero pad digits prefix:<\/strong><\/p>\n

@echo off
\nsetLocal EnableDelayedExpansion<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em><\/p>\n

set \/a cnt=1
\nfor %%i in (*.%1) do (
\ncall :Set0Pad %2<\/p>\n

set newName=!str! %%i
\nren “%%i” “!newName!”
\n)<\/p>\n

:Set0Pad
\nset padcntr=0000000000%cnt%
\nset str=%padcntr:~-%1%
\nset renstr=%str%
\nset \/a cnt+=1<\/em><\/p>\n

** Download available at the end of the page.<\/em><\/p>\n

\n

2. Batch script to remove prefix of perticular length<\/h2>\n

This script will accept file-type to be searched and lenght of prefix to be removed.<\/p>\n

Usage: RemovePrefix.bat<\/p>\n

Consider you have to rename \/ remove prefixes from a bunch of files:<\/p>\n

0001_fileX.doc
\n0002_fileY.doc
\n0003_fileZ.doc<\/em><\/p>\n

Command on dos prompt: RemovePrefix.bat mp3 5<\/p>\n

Files will be renamed with removed prefixes as follows:
\nfileX.doc
\nfileY.doc
\nfileZ.doc<\/em><\/p>\n

The Batch Script to remove prefix:
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

@echo off
\nsetLocal EnableDelayedExpansion<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em><\/p>\n

set \/a cnt=1
\nfor %%i in (*.%1) do (
\nset str=%%i
\nset newstr=!str:~%2!
\nren “%%i” “!newstr!”
\n)<\/em><\/p>\n

Download<\/strong>: RemovePrefix.bat<\/a> and\u00a0RenZeroPad.bat<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This post has two batch scripts: 1. Batch script to rename files with zero padded number series-prefix 2. Batch script to remove prefix of perticular length 1. Batch script to…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18,102,426,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-technical","7":"tag-batch","8":"tag-script","9":"tag-technical","10":"tag-windows"},"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kedar.nitty-witty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kedar.nitty-witty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kedar.nitty-witty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kedar.nitty-witty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kedar.nitty-witty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kedar.nitty-witty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1345,"href":"https:\/\/kedar.nitty-witty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions\/1345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kedar.nitty-witty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kedar.nitty-witty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kedar.nitty-witty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}