I am trying to change the file name of "summary-SUCCESS.txt" or "summary-FAILED.txt" to add text to the front of the file name such as:
"Name1-summary-SUCCESS.txt"
"Name2-summary-SUCCESS.txt"
"Name3-summary-SUCCESS.txt"
... and so on
I am currently using the cmd
ren summary-* name1-summary*
and it takes away characters from the original file name, an example of what is output below:
"Name1-summary-S.txt"
"Nam1-summary-SS.txt"
"Na1-summary-ESS.txt"
"N1-summary-CESS.txt"
"N-summary-CCESS.txt"
"-summary-UCCESS.txt"
How would I go about adding a certain name to the beginning of a file name without losing any of the other characters in the original file name?
You need to use a for loop to iterate through all the matching files.
In a command prompt window (cmd) it looks like this:
for %I in ("summary-*.txt") do ren "%~I" "Name1-%~nxI"
In a batch script (batch-file) it looks like this:
for %%I in ("summary-*.txt") do ren "%%~I" "Name1-%%~nxI"
You may be interested in this thread on Super User:
How does the Windows RENAME command interpret wildcards?
Related
this is for my doctoral thesis in medicine. So please excuse my noobishnis in programing.
I have a bunch (about 4000 files) of scans from patients. There is a front and a back .jpg for each patient. And there where multiple patients each day.
The folder structure looks like this:
\images
\2017-08-21
\pa_102165.jpg
\pa_10216500001.jpg
\2017-06-14
\pa_101545.jpg
\pa_10154500001.jpg
\pa_104761.jpg
\pa_10476100001.jpg
\pa_107514.jpg
\pa_10751400001.jpg
\2017-03-73
\pa_109631.jpg
\pa_10963100001.jpg
\pa_108624.jpg
\pa_10862400001.jpg
Where in the first example 2017-08-21 is the date the patient came in, pa_102165.jpg is the front and pa_10216500001.jpg is the back. So the front is always pa_10XXXX.jpg and the back is pa_10XXXX00001.jpg. I had no hand in the nameing scheme.
My goal is to make a batchscript that merges the 2 corresponding .jpgs of each patient horizontally and automatically puts them in a different folder, so that I don't have to do it manually with something like MS Paint.
For example like this:
\images
\merged
\2017-08-21
\pa_102165_merged.jpg
\2017-06-14
\pa_101545_merged.jpg
\pa_104761_merged.jpg
\pa_107514_merged.jpg
\2017-03-73
\pa_109631_merged.jpg
\pa_108624_merged.jpg
I'm working on Windows 10 and found two promising methods so far but fail to comprehend how to make this into a batch file or something like it.
IrfanView Thumbnails
1. Mark the 2 corresponding .jpgs
2. File>Create contact sheet from selected files...
3. Create
4. File>Save as... in destination folder which i have to create for every day
which is faster than merging them by hand but would consume multiple workdays to do for all the pairs
and...
ImageMagic in Windows cmd
C:\Users\me\doctor\Images\test\images\2016-03-31>convert pa_102165.jpg pa_10216500001.jpg +append pa_102165_merged.jpg
This produces the merged .jpeg in the same folder the input images are in. This looks more promising but I fail to grasp how I could automate this process given the nameing scheme and the folder structure.
Thanks for taking the time to read this! I'm happy for every input you have!
This should get you fairly close. Essentially it is using the power of the FOR command modifiers to extract the base file name and file extension. The FOR /F command is capturing the output of the DIR command that is piped to the FINDSTR command. We are doing that so we only grab files with the file mask of pa_######.jpg
Once we have that we use the command modifiers with the IF command to make sure the 00001 file exists. If it does exist then it will execute the convert command. For the sake of making sure the code is performing correctly I am just ECHOING the output to the screen. If the output on the screen looks correct then remove the ECHO so that the CONVERT command executes.
#echo off
CD /D "C:\Users\me\doctor\Images\test\images"
FOR /F "delims=" %%G IN ('DIR /A-D /B /S PA_*.jpg ^|findstr /RIC:"pa_[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]\.jpg$"') DO (
IF EXIST "%%~dpnG00001%%~xG" (
ECHO convert "%%G" "%%~dpnG00001%%~xG" +append "%%~dpnG_merged%%~xG"
)
)
This task could be done with IrfanView with the following batch file stored in the directory containing the folder images.
#echo off
setlocal EnableExtensions DisableDelayedExpansion
set "IrfanView=%ProgramFiles(x86)%\IrfanView\i_view32.exe"
set "SourcePath=%~dp0images"
set "TargetPath=%~dp0merged"
for /F "delims=" %%I in ('%SystemRoot%\System32\where.exe /R "%SourcePath%" pa_10????.jpg 2^>nul') do for %%J in ("%%~dpI.") do (
if not exist "%TargetPath%\%%~nxJ\%%~nI_merged%%~xI" if exist "%%~dpnI00001%%~xI" (
if not exist "%TargetPath%\%%~nxJ\" md "%TargetPath%\%%~nxJ"
if exist "%TargetPath%\%%~nxJ\" (
echo Merging "%%~nxJ\%%~nxI" and "%%~nxJ\%%~nI00001%%~xI" ...
"%IrfanView%" /convert="%TargetPath%\%%~nxJ\%%~nI_merged%%~xI" /jpgq=95 /panorama=(1,"%%I","%%~dpnI00001%%~xI"^)
)
)
)
endlocal
There must be customized the fully qualified file name of IrfanView in the third line. There can be modified also the percent value of option /jpgq which defines the quality of the output JPEG file.
The command WHERE searches recursive in subdirectory images of the directory containing the batch file for files matching the wildcard pattern pa_10????.jpg with ignoring all other files. The found file names are output with full path and this list of file names is captured by FOR and processed line by line after WHERE finished. WHERE is executed in this case by one more cmd.exe started in background with option /c and the command line within ' as additional arguments and not by cmd.exe processing the batch file.
Read the Microsoft documentation about Using command redirection operators for an explanation of 2>nul. The redirection operator > must be escaped with caret character ^ on FOR command line to be interpreted as literal character when Windows command interpreter processes this command line before executing command FOR which executes the embedded where command line with using a separate command process started in background.
Each image file with full name (drive + path + name + extension) is assigned one after the other to the loop variable I. For each file name one more FOR loop is used which processes just the full path to the current image file to assign this path with a dot appended to loop variable J. The dot at end means current directory, i.e. the directory containing current image file to process.
There is next checked with the first IF condition if for that image file does not exist already a matching pa_10????_merged.jpg file in which case there is nothing to do for the current image file. That means the batch file can be executed on same folder as often as wanted because of it runs IrfanView only for the source JPEG files for which the appropriate target JPEG file does not exist already.
The second IF condition checks if the back image exists also in the directory of current front image as otherwise nothing can be merged at all.
There is next checked with the third IF condition if the target directory exists already and this directory is created if that is not the case.
The last IF condition checks once again the existence of the target directory and if that exists now as expected, IrfanView is called with the appropriate options to create the merged image file in the target directory with the appropriate file name.
The closing round bracket ) on IrfanView command line must be escaped with ^ to be interpreted literally by cmd.exe to pass this closing parenthesis to IrfanView instead of interpreting it as end of one of the command blocks opened with ( above.
For understanding the used commands and how they work, open a command prompt window, execute there the following commands, and read entirely all help pages displayed for each command very carefully.
call /? ... explains %~dp0 ... drive and path of argument 0 which is the batch file path always ending with a backslash
echo /?
endlocal /?
for /?
if /?
md /?
setlocal /?
where /?
Double click on the text file i_options.txt in program files folder of IrfanView for the description of the IrfanView options as used in the batch file.
I have a folder with many sub-folders which have further sub-folders. each folder has a number of files.
I want to rename all the file by adding some suffix to them
for ex:
Original: FileName1.ext
Final : Suf_FileName1.ext
To carry out this function, found this command online
`FOR /R %x IN (*) DO ren "%x" Suf_*`
but this replaces the initial characters in the original file name
like
Original: FileName1.ext
Final : Suf_Name.ext
(please note it has removed initial characters in the initial file name )
Please suggest changes/modifications in the above command,
or another command to carry out the function.
Thanks in Advance.
When you use a for command to iterate over a set of files, the for replaceable parameter (%x in your sample) contains a reference to the file.
When you use %x in the commands contained in the do clause, this parameter is replaced by information of the file being processed, by default the name and extension of the file (when using a simple for) or the file with full path (when using a recursive for /R), but you can decide and changee what information you want to use. The replaceable parameter allows the usage of some modifiers (you can see the full list if you execute for /?)
In your case, for your rename mask you need the name and extension of the file being referenced (I've changed your %x with %F so the syntax is clearer)
%~nxF
^^^^.... replaceable parameter
||+..... extension of the file referenced
|+...... name of the file referenced
+....... operator for modifier usage
Your command could be something like
for /R %F in (*) do echo ren "%F" "Suf_%~nxF"
note: The echo in the command is just a debugging habit. Before changing anything, first show to console the commands that will be executed. If the output seems correct then we only have to remove the echo and run the command again.
Remember that if you want to use the command inside a batch file, you need to escape the percent signs in the for replaceable parameters by doubling them. Inside a batch file the previous command will be
for /R %%F in (*) do echo ren "%%F" "Suf_%%~nxF"
I would like a batch file that reads every line of a text file and creates a blank text file whose name corresponds to each line in the text file, regardless of spaces, and then puts them into C:\temp. I should be able to drag the text file onto the batch file to make it produce everything.
Example:
The original text file sample.txt says:
This is a file (haha)
This is another file
I need this file.
This should create these three files in the directory C:\temp:
This is a file (haha).txt
This is another file.txt
I need this file..txt
I think it should be something like this:
for /f %%i in (c:\temp\sample.txt) do echo %%i > "c:\temp\%%i.txt"
But this only makes a file for the first word in the text file, not each line.
Please help.
You need to add the "tokens=*" option so that it accepts characters like spaces. Your code would look like this:
for /f "tokens=*" %%i in (c:\temp\sample.txt) do copy /y nul "c:\temp\%%i.txt"
I have a bunch of .flv files in subdirs and I need to loop through them and rename it according to its path.
I was able to loop through them all, but I don't know how to split the path and rename it using batch script.
Here's what I have so far:
echo off
for /R %%F in (*.flv) do (
echo %%~pF
)
The "echo %%~pF" prints the path for the current file on the loop, something like this:
\folder\morefolders\activity\ NameThatIwant \Videos\
I tried spliting with "delims=\" on my for loop but I get only "echo off".
I tried other tutorials, read other questions on SO but none of them were renaming the files from a split string from the path of the file in the loop.
Could you guys help giving suggestions or direct me to any material that explains those %% codes?
Thanks.
I think you do not need to split the path, though you could do it using for /f "delims=NameInthePath tokens=1", where NameInthePath - is some word in the path and tokens= gives you the first part of the path separated by delims.
Actially, if you need to rename file name you need to use REN command. If you need to change the path for the flv file - use copy of move command.
A batch file to rename all .LOG files to .TXT in the 'demo' folder and all sub-folders:
CD C:\demo\
For /R %%G in (*.LOG) do REN "%%G" "%~nG.TXT"
I am trying to write a batch script to rename multiple folders.
I would like to do something like below:
Rename all folders under the "Workspace" folder by appending my name in the end of the folder names
For example, rename:
Workspace/RiskFolder
Workspace/PNLFolder
to:
Workspace/RiskFolder_myname
Workspace/PNLFolder_myname
Is this possible?
You could use for to loop through each directory and rename it like so:
for /D %%f in (C:\path\to\Workspace\*) do rename "%%f" "%%~nxf_myname"
I tested this on Windows 7, but it should work at least as far back as with Windows XP.
What that does is this: for each directory in the path (within parenthesis), assign the directory name to the variable %%f, then rename the directory %%f to the name in the format you want (with your name attached). %%f holds the full pathname, which is fine for the first argument to the rename command, but for the second argument, we only want the filename+extension, thus the ~nx modifier prepended to our variable name.
By the way, when using this for loop on the command line (rather than part of a batch file) you only want to use one % instead of %% for your variable name. E.g. for %f in... instead of above.
See the following references from Microsoft for more details:
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/batch.mspx?mfr=true
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/for.mspx?mfr=true
You can use the following command within your batch file:-
for /F "usebackq tokens=*" %%a in (`dir /ad /b %1`) do ren %1\%%a %%a%2
This is the DOS 'for' command, which iterates over given set of items, and for each element in the set, performs the given action. For the given requirement, we need to do the following:-
1) Accept name of folder which contains sub-folders to be renamed(in your example, it is Workspace).
2) Accept the string to be appended to the end(in your example, it is your name).
3) List the names of sub-folders in the folder.
4) Rename by appending the string to original name.
Let's see how this for command accomplishes that. The format of 'for' command used here is:-
for /F ["options"] %variable IN (`command`) do command [command-parameters]
The command here assumes that the required parent directory name and string to be appended are passed on as command line parameters. These are represented by %1 and %2 (first and second parameters).
To enable us to issue a dos command to be evaluated, we need to use the /F option. The option string is :-
"usebackq tokens=*"
usebackq specifies backquouted string is a command to be evaluated.(Note that the dir command is enclosed within backquotes(`) )
tokens=* means to consider each line as a single token and pass to the command
To list the sub-directories in parent directory, we use the command:-
dir /ad /b %1
/ad displays only directories (ignores files)
/b displays it in bare format, i.e., only names are returned and date, time and other info are not.
%1 is the command line variable referring to parent directory.
%%a is the variable which receives the sub-directory name in each iteration. Double percentage symbol is required since we use it in a batch file, otherwise, just one is required (like %a)
Finally, we specify the action to be performed:-
ren %1\%%a %%a%2
%1\%%a constructs absolute path to sub-directory
%%a%2 append second command line parameter to original name
For more info on for command, type following in a command prompt:-
for /?
For another usage example, refer Loopy loops: The DOS way
No need for a batch file. This will work from the command line
for /d %D in ("Workspace\*") do ren "%D" "%~nxD_myName"
If you do use a batch file, then %D must become %%D
If there is no need to perform folder/file renaming with a batch file, you can also use the Bulk Rename Utility for Windows. Check this: http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Download.php
For /D %%f in (*) do rename "%%f" "%%fWhatEverNameYouLike"
pause
The pause is to see it! Make a cmd of it and put it in the folder that you want to rename all it's subfolders! They'll rename to each one folders name, plus the WhatEverNameYouLike