Rename filenameXX.txt to filename.txt

[darioit]

Hello,

it' possible to do this rename with dos command "REN"

file1xx.txt > file1.txt
file2xx.txt > file1.txt
.....

Thanks
Regars

Dario

[!k]

First 5 symbols?

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ren *.txt ?????.txt

W/o last 2 symbols? — Then see set/?

[ghostmachine4]

Hello,

it' possible to do this rename with dos command "REN"

file1xx.txt > file1.txt
file2xx.txt > file1.txt
.....

Thanks
Regars

Dario

assuming you want to get rid of XX, which is any 2 characters before the extension .txt.

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C:\test>gawk "{f=FILENAME;sub(/..\.txt/,\".txt\",f);cmd=\"ren \"FILENAME\" \"f ;print cmd}" file1XX.txt file2XX.txt
ren file1XX.txt file1.txt
ren file2XX.txt file2.txt

substitute "print cmd" for "system(cmd)" to do actual rename

[darioit]

First 5 symbols?

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ren *.txt ?????.txt

W/o last 2 symbols? — Then see set/?

unfortunately no, the lenght of first character could be variable, but 2 byte before dot are fix

[amel27]

2 byte before dot are fix

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for %%i in (*xx.txt) do set "$i=%%~ni"& call ren "%%i" "%%$i:~0,-2%%.txt"