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Sorry for the bad spelling, foxidrive.

Sorry can't forget Foxydrive you corrected the biggest portion of the coding.

Squashman, your response did the trick. It worked just as expected. Guys thank you so much for your help on this important matter.

I tried that, but it didn't work. On the run execution of the bat file I'm able to see the rename from the old file name to the new file name. It has to be something on the ren "%~1" "%file%" instruction.

I got the following error: C:\Users\marionh\Desktop\Staging2>ren "C:\Users\marionh\Desktop\Staging2\2D@renametest.pdf" "C:\Users\marionh\Desktop\Staging2\2D_renametest.pdf" The syntax of the command is incorrect. I don't understand why, because is executing the rename from 2D@ren...

Hi i'm working on the below script to rename files and after renamed will copy the file to a different target directory, but is not working. can some one revised for me? I don't know what i'm doing wrong. @echo on setlocal enabledelayedexpansion for %%a in (%*) do ( set file=%%a ren "!file!&quo...

I know we have answered this question in the past on the forums so searching for it shouldn't be a problem. But there is a flaw in your question as you cannot use ? or * to name a file in the first place. Yes, I know. These are files that are named by my clients, they named as they like, and I can'...

Hi, I need help writing a DOS script to change symbols as of '-%#@*&!"? for an underscore (_) in a filename. or how can I incorporated the below DOS command into a DOS script. for /f "tokens=* delims= " %i in ('dir /b "*.pdf"') do Set LIST=%i& set LIST | ren "%~...