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Should be no more than 1 asterisk, so that'll do, Thanks.

Thanks Yury, it works perfectly. The first line of filename.txt might have a vertical bar or an asterisk in it. Since these characters aren't allowed in folder names, I'm trying to remove them from the string before I rename the folder. Yury's solution removes the vertical bar, but asterisks still p...

Very new to batch files in general. I'm trying to rename a list folders to the first line of a .txt file within the corresponding folder. setlocal enabledelayedexpansion for /D %%f in (*) do ( set /p str=< %%f\filename.txt set str=!str:^|=! echo.!str! rename "%%f" "!str!") pause ...