Question

I know that there are several posts adressing this issue already. However I can’t get my little batch script to work and I am a newbie so I would be very pleased if u could help me to solve that.

I have a bunch of pdf files named with a random number and “_text” e.g. 174098_text.pdf. Now I want to rename the file such that I only have 174098.pdf left (remove _text).

Here is my latest version of my file “Rename.cmd”:

@echo off
@setlocal
REM +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
REM ++++++++ Umbenennen von Dateien ++++++++++++++++
REM +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++


REM +++ Dateinamen und Pfad ermitteln
FOR /f "delims=" %%D in ('Dir /b %Path%\*_*.pdf') do (
FOR /f "delims=_ tokens=1-2" %%I in ('%%D') do (
    ren %%D %%I.pdf
    )
)

Endlocal

I hope you can help me and explain me what i have done wrong. Running the code it opens all the files but dosn’t rename a single one of it.

Answer 1

/F parameter is for OPENING commands and/or get the output of a command, so when you use the second for /F you are telling the CMD to execute “%%D” file, so can’t work that.

You can use a FOR without parameters, or a /R parameter if you need recursively a folder.

And you don’t need to start setlocal for this job

@echo off

FOR %%# in ("C:\Folder\*.pdf") DO (

    :: Set the "filename.extension"
    Set "File=%%~nx#"

    :: Rename it
    Call Rename "%%#" "%%FILE:_TEXT=%%"
    REM Explanation:
    REM Rename "filename_text.pdf" with "Filename(_Text=NOTHING).pdf"
    REM (That removes the "_TEXT" pattern in each filename)
)
pause&Exit

Remember, if you need recursive:

FOR /R "C:\Folder\" %%@ in (*.pdf)