Re: DOS Prompt

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On Wed, 28 May 2008 12:18:00 -0700, digdug
<digdug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I am trying to write a batch file to strip the leading characters from
the name of all files in a directory - leaving the second part of the file
name.
I have tried using 'rename' but cannot get it to work.

I use this - it uses Gnu SED

@echo off
if %2.==. echo Remove Leading Characters from filenames.
if %2.==. echo.
if %2.==. echo. Syntax: %0 filespec.ext 5
if %2.==. echo.
if %2.==. echo. where it will remove 5 characters from the
if %2.==. echo. beginning of each filename in the filespec
if %2.==. echo.
if %2.==. echo. ENSURE THAT ALL FILENAMES EXCEED x CHARACTERS!
if %2.==. goto :end
set t="%temp%.\rlc.bat"
echo. @echo off>%t%
echo echo renaming files...>>%t%
dir %1 /b/on|sed "s/^.\{%2\}\(.*\)$/ren \x22&\x22 \x22\1\x22/">>%t%
call %t%
:end

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