Warning: It happens very quickly that a command prompt rename operation renames too many files and you can't undo it.

Using a ? will leave the number in place and * instructs the rename-command to replace any characters in between sampleX and. In this example, you want to keep the word sample and the number X (where X can be any number or character). txt, you want to keep the first 7 characters you want to get rid of the dates: in command prompt: If you want to rename multiple files, i.e.

Renaming multiple files with similar names This * basically means any characters inbetween sample1 and. Let's say the filename is sample1-some-unwanted-text-1234.txt and we want to change it to sample1.txt without having to type the whole filename: in command prompt: Renaming 1 file by replacing multiple unwanted characters using a star: Let's say the filename is sample1-some-unwanted-text-1234.txt and we want to change it to sample1.txt: in command prompt, type:Ĭ: emp> ren sample1-some-unwanted-text-1234.txt sample1.txt In this example we have a sample1.txt and we want to change its name to sample2.txt: in command prompt type:Ĭ: emp> ren sample1.txt sample2.txt

Rename file types phpmaker