I need to rename thousands of rar files with original filenames of variable sizes. I must make them 10 characters long by keeping the first 3 and the last 4 characters of the original filename and adding in the middle 3 random characters [numbers].
Example:
input:
"John Doe - Jane Doe - 19073275.rar"
"XXXX - XYXY- 98705674.rar
output:
"Joh1273275.rar"
"XXX9795674.rar"
Next, the .bat should generate a .txt with the original name and the modified one underneath for each file!
I know it's possible but I'm completely stupid when it comes to writing it. Please help!
The Batch file below do what you want:
#echo off
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
for %%a in (*.rar) do (
set name=%%~Na
set num=00!random!
set newName=!name:~0,3!!num:~-3!!name:~-4!
ren "%%a" "!newName!%%~Xa"
echo "%%a" modified to "!newName!%%~Xa" >> log.txt
)
I'd write a script to generate the names in any simple way (say first 6 + last 4), and then check for any duplicates to be cleaned up by hand (or a second pass shifting the middle, or ...). Unless this is a repetitive job (do it daily), it isn't worth fully automatizing.
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I want to run experiments using behavior space. However, the number of experiments needed is depending on the length of a list which is dynamic subject to the external data loaded. Hence , I want to do something like below which is not supported:
what is the correct way to do so? thanks
You note that you do this with a .bat or .sha file. If that's the case, here's a .bat solution. However, I'm not sure what your data looks like- in this example I just used the number of entries in a csv file to determine the number of runs needed.
So, I have a data file called 'example_data.csv' that looks like this:
1
100
1000
10000
I have an .nlogo file with an Input widget that defines a global variable called n_runs. I pulled out the xml for an BehaviorSpace experiment and saved it in a file called "experiment_base.xml"- it looks like:
<experiments>
<experiment name="experiment" repetitions="1" sequentialRunOrder="false" runMetricsEveryStep="false">
<setup>setup</setup>
<go>tick</go>
<timeLimit steps="5"/>
<metric>count turtles</metric>
<steppedValueSet variable="n_runs" first="1" step="1" last="1"/>
</experiment>
</experiments>
I have a .bat file that:
counts the number of entries in my 'example_data.csv"
reads in the 'experiment_base.xml' file and replaces the last="1" with the number read above, then writes this as a new experiment called 'mod_experiments.xml'
runs the experiment using the newly generated experiments file
This entire bat file looks like:
#echo off
cls
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
set "cmd=findstr /R /N "^^" example_data.csv | find /C ":""
for /f %%a in ('!cmd!') do set number=%%a
powershell -Command "(gc experiment_base.xml) -replace '<steppedValueSet variable=\"n_runs\" first=\"1\" step=\"1\" last=\"1\"/>', '<steppedValueSet variable=\"n_runs\" first=\"1\" step=\"1\" last=\"%number%\"/>' | Set-Content mod_experiments.xml
echo "Running experiment..."
netlogo-headless.bat ^
--model dynamic_behaviorspace.nlogo ^
--setup-file mod_experiments.xml ^
--table table-output.csv
This outputs results for 4 experiments, since I had 4 values in my data file. If I modify the number of entries in the csv and rerun the .bat file, I get results for a corresponding number of runs.
I apologize in advance that this question is not specific. But my goal is to take a bunch of image files, which are currently named as: 0.tif, 1.tif, 2.tif, etc... and rename them just as numbers to 000.tif, 001.tif, 002.tif, ... , 010.tif, etc...
The reason I want to do this is because I am trying to load the images into matlab and for batch processing but matlab does not order them correctly. I use the dir command as dir(*.tif) to get all the images and load them into an array of files that I can iterate over and process, but in this array element 1 is 0.tif, element 2 is 1.tif, element 3 is 10.tif, element 4 is 100.tif, and so on.
I want to keep the ordering of the elements as I process them. However, I do not care if I have to change the order of the elements BEFORE processing them (i.e. I can make it work to rename, for example, 2.tif to 10.tif if I had to) but I am looking for a way to convert the file names the way I initially described.
If there is a better way to get matlab to properly order the files when it loads them into the array using dir please let me know because that would be much easier.
Thanks!!
You can do this without having to rename the files, if you want. When you grab the files using dir, you'll have a list of files like so:
files =
'0.tif'
'1.tif'
'10.tif'
...
You can grab just the numeric part using regexp:
nums = regexp(files,'\d+','match');
nums = str2double([nums{:}]);
nums =
0 1 10 11 12 ...
regexp returns its matches as a cell-array, the second line converts it back to actual numbers.
We can now get an actual numeric order by sorting the resulting array:
[~,order] = sort(nums);
and then put the files in the correct order:
files = files(order);
This should (I haven't tested it, I don't have a folder full of numerically labelled files handy) produce a list of files like so:
files=
'0.tif'
'1.tif'
'2.tif'
'3.tif'
...
this is partially dependent on the version of matlab you have. If you have a version with findstr this should work well
num_files_to_rename = numel(name_array);
for ii=1:num_files_to_rename
%in my test i used cells to store my strings you may need to
%change the bracket type for your application
curr_file = name_array{ii};
%locates the period in the file name (assume there is only one)
period_idx = findstr(curr_file ,'.');
%takes everything to the left of the period (excluding the period)
file_name = str2num(curr_file(1:period_idx-1));
%zeropads the file name to 3 spaces using a 0
new_file_name = sprintf('%03d.tiff',file_name)
%you can uncomment this after you are sure it works as you planned
%movefile(curr_file, new_file_name);
end
the actual rename operation movefile is commented out for now. make sure the output names are as you expect before uncommenting it and renaming all the files.
EDIT there is no real error checking in this code, it just assumes every file name has one and only one period, and an actual number as the name
The Batch file below do the rename of the files you want:
#echo off
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
for /F "delims=" %%f in ('dir /B *.tif') do (
set "name=00%%~Nf"
ren "%%f" "!name:~-3!.tif"
)
Note that this solution preserve the same order of your original files, even if there are missing numbers in the sequence..
I have a series of files that have long filenames. For each filename that contains a hyphen I would like to keep the substring in position 6-8, append the _FM07_FY14.prn to the name and ignore the rest of the original filename. The new extension is now .prn. The two digits 07 stands for the month and 14 is the year. The month and year can be found from the "date created" property. Will appreciate it if you can show me how to automatically capture this mm and yy from the date created. Hardcoding this part is okay too since I can sort files by created dates and put them in separate folders.
For example
aaaaaD07.dfdd-1234.A.b.1233 new filename will be D07_FM01_FY14.prn
bbcbaA30dls-d343.a.123d new filename will be A30_FM01_FY14.prn
cdq0dG12ir3-438d.dfd.txt new filename will be G12_FM01_FY14.prn
This is the .bat file I come up with after reading many posts on here, and I don't know how to extract the mm and yy so I hard code it. I am not familiar with Powershell. I can only handle a .bat or .cmd file and run it at the command prompt. Any and all help will be highly appreciated. Thanks!
#ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL
for %%F in (*.*) do (
SET "name=%%a"
set "var=_FM01_FY14.prn"
ren *-* "%name:~6,8%var%"
)
*endlocal*
#ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
SET "sourcedir=U:\sourcedir\one"
PUSHD %sourcedir%
FOR /f "delims=" %%a IN (
'dir /b /a-d "*" '
) DO (
SET name=%%a
SET fdate=%%~ta
ECHO(REN "%%a" "!name:~5,3!_FM!fdate:~3,2!_FY!fdate:~8,2!.prn"
)
popd
GOTO :EOF
You would need to change the setting of sourcedir to suit your circumstances.
The format that I use for date is dd/mm/yyyy If yours is different, then you'll need to change the offset in the !fdate:~m,2! phrases. The value of m is the offset into the date string from the first character (the second parameter is the number of characters to select.)
The required REN commands are merely ECHOed for testing purposes. After you've verified that the commands are correct, change ECHO(REN to REN to actually rename the files.
Project moving forwards, I can see why creating .bat files to do things can become addictive!
I can now save somefile.txt at regular intervals, I then rename somefile.txt by adding the time and date to create a unique file name
ren somefile.txt somefile_%time:~0,2%%time:~3,2%-%date:~-10,2%%date:~3,2%%date:~-4,4%.txt
As an example, the code above has just renamed somefile.txt to somefile_1317_13022011.txt (1317hrs on 13th February 2011)
I ran
ren somefile.txt somefile_%time:~0,2%%time:~3,2%-%date:~-10,2%%date:~7,2%%date:~-4,4%.txt
yesterday, it ran successfully until midnight, and then it crashed (syntax error) although it was saving as 12012011 for the date (12th Jan 2011) instead of the correct date of 12022011.
Will the current version ran past midnight? Am I confusing myself with UK vs US date format?
Animuson gives a decent way to do it, but no help on understanding it. I kept looking and came across a forum thread with this commands:
Echo Off
IF Not EXIST n:\dbfs\doekasp.txt GOTO DoNothing
copy n:\dbfs\doekasp.txt n:\history\doekasp.txt
Rem rename command is done twice (2) to allow for 1 or 2 digit hour,
Rem If before 10am (1digit) hour Rename starting at location (0) for (2) chars,
Rem will error out, as location (0) will have a space
Rem and space is invalid character for file name,
Rem so second remame will be used.
Rem
Rem if equal 10am or later (2 digit hour) then first remame will work and second will not
Rem as doekasp.txt will not be found (remamed)
ren n:\history\doekasp.txt doekasp-%date:~4,2%-%date:~7,2%-%date:~10,4%_#_%time:~0,2%h%time:~3,2%m%time:~6,2%s%.txt
ren n:\history\doekasp.txt doekasp-%date:~4,2%-%date:~7,2%-%date:~10,4%_#_%time:~1,1%h%time:~3,2%m%time:~6,2%s%.txt
I always name year first YYYYMMDD, but wanted to add time. Here you will see that he has given a reason why 0,2 will not work and 1,1 will, because (space) is an invalid character. This opened my eyes to the issue. Also, by default you're in 24hr mode.
I ended up with:
ren Logs.txt Logs-%date:~10,4%%date:~7,2%%date:~4,2%_%time:~0,2%%time:~3,2%.txt
ren Logs.txt Logs-%date:~10,4%%date:~7,2%%date:~4,2%_%time:~1,1%%time:~3,2%.txt
Output:
Logs-20121707_1019
Digging up the old thread because all solutions have missed the simplest fix...
It is failing because the substitution of the time variable results in a space in the filename, meaning it treats the last part of the filename as a parameter into the command.
The simplest solution is to just surround the desired filename in quotes "filename".
Then you can have any date pattern you want (with the exception of those illegal characters such as /,\,...)
I would suggest reverse date order YYYYMMDD-HHMM:
ren "somefile.txt" "somefile-%date:~10,4%%date:~7,2%%date:~4,2%-%time:~0,2%%time:~3,2%.txt"
following should be your right solution
ren somefile.txt somefile_%time:~0,2%%time:~3,2%-%DATE:/=%.txt
I took the above but had to add one more piece because it was putting a space after the hour which gave a syntax error with the rename command.
I used:
set HR=%time:~0,2%
set HR=%Hr: =0%
set HR=%HR: =%
rename c:\ops\logs\copyinvoices.log copyinvoices_results_%date:~10,4%-%date:~4,2%-%date:~7,2%_%HR%%time:~3,2%.log
This gave me my format I needed:
copyinvoices_results_2013-09-13_0845.log
problem in %time:~0,2% can't set to 24 hrs format, ended with space(1-9), instead of 0(1-9)
go around with:
set HR=%time:~0,2%
set HR=%Hr: =0% (replace space with 0 if any <has a space in between : =0>)
then replace %time:~0,2% with %HR%
good luck
ls | xargs -I % mv % %_`date +%d%b%Y`
One line is enough.
ls all files/dirs under current dir and append date to each file.
I tried to do the same:
<fileName>.<ext> --> <fileName>_<date>_<time>.<ext>
I found that :
rename 's/(\w+)(\.\w+)/$1'$(date +"%Y%m%d_%H%M%S)'$2/' *
I have a set of base filenames, for each name 'f' there are exactly two files, 'f.in' and 'f.out'. I want to write a batch file (in Windows XP) which goes through all the filenames, for each one it should:
Display the base name 'f'
Perform an action on 'f.in'
Perform another action on 'f.out'
I don't have any way to list the set of base filenames, other than to search for *.in (or *.out) for example.
Assuming you have two programs that process the two files, process_in.exe and process_out.exe:
for %%f in (*.in) do (
echo %%~nf
process_in "%%~nf.in"
process_out "%%~nf.out"
)
%%~nf is a substitution modifier, that expands %f to a file name only.
See other modifiers in https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490909.aspx (midway down the page) or just in the next answer.
You can use this line to print the contents of your desktop:
FOR %%I in (C:\windows\desktop\*.*) DO echo %%I
Once you have the %%I variable it's easy to perform a command on it (just replace the word echo with your program)
In addition, substitution of FOR variable references has been enhanced
You can now use the following optional syntax:
%~I - expands %I removing any surrounding quotes (")
%~fI - expands %I to a fully qualified path name
%~dI - expands %I to a drive letter only
%~pI - expands %I to a path only (directory with \)
%~nI - expands %I to a file name only
%~xI - expands %I to a file extension only
%~sI - expanded path contains short names only
%~aI - expands %I to file attributes of file
%~tI - expands %I to date/time of file
%~zI - expands %I to size of file
%~$PATH:I - searches the directories listed in the PATH
environment variable and expands %I to the
fully qualified name of the first one found.
If the environment variable name is not
defined or the file is not found by the
search, then this modifier expands to the
empty string
https://ss64.com/nt/syntax-args.html
In the above examples %I and PATH can be replaced by other valid
values. The %~ syntax is terminated by a valid FOR variable name.
Picking upper case variable names like %I makes it more readable and
avoids confusion with the modifiers, which are not case sensitive.
You can get the full documentation by typing FOR /?
Easiest way, as I see it, is to use a for loop that calls a second batch file for processing, passing that second file the base name.
According to the for /? help, basename can be extracted using the nifty ~n option. So, the base script would read:
for %%f in (*.in) do call process.cmd %%~nf
Then, in process.cmd, assume that %0 contains the base name and act accordingly. For example:
echo The file is %0
copy %0.in %0.out
ren %0.out monkeys_are_cool.txt
There might be a better way to do this in one script, but I've always been a bit hazy on how to pull of multiple commands in a single for loop in a batch file.
EDIT: That's fantastic! I had somehow missed the page in the docs that showed that you could do multi-line blocks in a FOR loop. I am going to go have to go back and rewrite some batch files now...
Expanding on Nathans post. The following will do the job lot in one batch file.
#echo off
if %1.==Sub. goto %2
for %%f in (*.in) do call %0 Sub action %%~nf
goto end
:action
echo The file is %3
copy %3.in %3.out
ren %3.out monkeys_are_cool.txt
:end
There is a tool usually used in MS Servers (as far as I can remember) called forfiles:
The link above contains help as well as a link to the microsoft download page.
The code below filters filenames starting with given substring. It could be changed to fit different needs by working on subfname substring extraction and IF statement:
echo off
rem filter all files not starting with the prefix 'dat'
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
FOR /R your-folder-fullpath %%F IN (*.*) DO (
set fname=%%~nF
set subfname=!fname:~0,3!
IF NOT "!subfname!" == "dat" echo "%%F"
)
pause
Echoing f.in and f.out will seperate the concept of what to loop and what not to loop when used in a for /f loop.
::Get the files seperated
echo f.in>files_to_pass_through.txt
echo f.out>>files_to_pass_through.txt
for /F %%a in (files_to_pass_through.txt) do (
for /R %%b in (*.*) do (
if "%%a" NEQ "%%b" (
echo %%b>>dont_pass_through_these.txt
)
)
)
::I'm assuming the base name is the whole string "f".
::If I'm right then all the files begin with "f".
::So all you have to do is display "f". right?
::But that would be too easy.
::Let's do this the right way.
for /f %%C in (dont_pass_through_these.txt)
::displays the filename and not the extention
echo %~nC
)
Although you didn't ask, a good way to pass commands into f.in and f.out would be to...
for /F %%D "tokens=*" in (dont_pass_through_these.txt) do (
for /F %%E in (%%D) do (
start /wait %%E
)
)
A link to all the Windows XP commands:link
I apologize if I did not answer this correctly. The question was very hard for me to read.