Windows Commands: Renames a file or files.


renc-Windows Command

ren command - Renames a file orfiles.

Description:-
Renames a file. Unlike the move command, this command cannot be used to rename subdirectories, or rename files across drives.

Syntax:-
ren filename newname

You can rename files in another directory by using the PATH parameter:
ren [path]|[filename] [newfilename]

Example:-

ren c:\Windows filex.txt filey.txt

On DOS with long filename support, care must be taken when directories have spaces in their names like "Documents and Settings". In these cases double-quotes are used to enclose them:

ren c:\"Documents and Settings"\"All Users"\Desktop filex.txt filey.txt

Mass renames can be accomplished by the use of wildcards. For example, the following command will change the extension of all files in the current directory which currently have the extension htm to html:

ren *.htm *.html

In Unix, this functionality of a simple move is provided by the mv command, while batch renames can be done using the rename command.

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