Batch Script to Rename JPEGS adding a 1 to the end - batch-file

I have a large amount of JPEGs inside subfolders that I need to rename to their current name with an extra 1 at the end.
For example:
G:\FILENAME\Subfolder1\subfolder2\JPEGNAME.JPG
Want to rename to
G:\FILENAME\Subfolder1\subfolder2\JPEGNAME1.JPG
I have over 900 files in this format that I need to rename.
Any help?

edit I added /r as I see you have a tree of files to modify. Type this command in the main holding folder of the JPG files.
Here's a cmd prompt command. Delete the echo if you like what you see on the console.
for /r %a in (*.jpg) do echo rename "%a" "%~na1%~xa"

There may not be a need for anything more than a simple REN command. See How does the Windows RENAME command interpret wildcards?.
As long as none of your file names have multiple dots in the name, then the following should work for the current directory. Just make sure there are at least as many ? as the longest name.
ren *.jpg ??????????????????????????????????????1.jpg
Or to process the entire directory tree
for /r %F in (.) do #ren "%F\*.jpg" ??????????????????????????????????????1.jpg
Or you can iterate each file with a FOR or FOR /R loop and rename them one at a time as foxidrive does in his answer.

using renamer:
$ renamer --find '/(.*)\.JPG/' --replace '$11.JPG' *
to operate recursively, change the * at the end of of the command to **.

Related

Setting up Source and Destdir in a batch

for /L %%f in (1,1,10) do copy File1.txt %%f.txt
this code does the job very well, but I'm trying to understand how to change it to make it read
subfolders, so that I don't have to keep moving the batch file to every folder
I saw this, but not really sure how to put it together
#echo off
SET "sourcedir=C:\Users\user\Desktop\Main\Original"
SET "destdir=C:\Users\user\Desktop\Main\Copied"
for /L %%f in ('dir /s 1,1,10) do copy *.txt %%f.txt
in the section - copy *.txt %%f - I put a * so that it can only look for .txt files, but this action
slows down the coping and then stops working.
I know my code is a mess, just trying to put something together
I have many Subfolders and each folder has 1 txt file in it with all random names
and I need to make multiple copies of each file.txt in each folder
I have so many subfolders that it would literally take me months of time to get all files copied
and by then I would have many more new files to work on
so getting this copier to read Subfolders is like top priority for me.
I would like help putting this together and then explaining how it links
because I'm interested in applying the Set and dir to other batch file I have
Please any details on this will be much appreciated
I was told to look into xcopy and robocopy, but I have no idea were to add a counter
#echo off
for /1 %f in (1,1,10) do xcopy "C:\Sources" "C:\Target" /c /d /i /y
exit
So I have this that reads from source and dumps in main folder where the batch is
Option 1)
for /L %%f in (1,1,10) do xcopy "C:\Source Address\*.txt" %%f.txt
Option 2)
for /L %%f in (1,1,10) do xcopy "C:\Source Address\" "C:\Destination Address\ %%f.txt"
The thing I don't like is that is asks me a question
and I have over 10,000 txt files, I can't sit here and press F for Filename
10,000 times, can we disable that
OK, so I got this working
all I need help with is were to add this /c /d /i /y
I am still trying to get it to read Subfolders with the batch sitting
in the main folder and me not having to move files back and forth
Option 3)
for /L %%f in (1,1,110) do copy "C:\Source Address\*.txt" %%f.txt`
This works well with the Source and the wild card #magoo told me to add
the Source before the .txt file
But with this code I would still have to open hundreds of folders and move
the file to the source run the copier and then move back all copied files
Still need help with Subfolders
for /L %%f in (1,1,10) do copy File1.txt %%f.txt
will vary %%f from 1 (the first number in the parenthesised list) to 10 (the last) in steps of 1 (the middle) and will therefore copy file1.txt to 10 separate files, 1.txt to 10.txt.
Since there are no paths specified, the copy will be performed from file1.txt in the current directory to 1.txt .. 10.txt in the current directory.
If you were to put your batch file in any directory that is mentioned in the path variable (just execute path at the prompt to show it) then no matter where the current directory is, you could just use that batch filename to execute the batch, and the files would be created by copying file1.txt in the now-current directory to 1.txt .. 10.txt in the now-current directory - if file1.txt exists in the now-current directory, and if not, it will generate error messages reporting that the source file is missing.
If you were to replace file1.txt in the batch with "x:\wherever\file1.txt" then the file would be copied specifically from the file "x:\wherever\file1.txt" regardless of whether file1.txt exists in the now-current directory. (And please get used to "quoting file or pathnames" as it will avoid a whole slough of problems when you tackle names containing spaces and some other special characters).
I have no idea how for /L %%f in ('dir /s 1,1,10) do is supposed to work since according to Hoyle, the first element in the parenthesised list should be a number. I'd suggest that we have a small transcription problem here.
Th slower and slower problem - yes, understandable. You are creating more and more .txt files, and copying all of them to a new destination...
Perhaps referring to This response and question might show how to solve your subdirectory-scan issue.

Listing all files in a folder with added sentences in between each file name

So, I currently have a simple batch file using dir to list all the file names in a folder:
dir /b > FileList.txt
But I also want to append information in-between each line, namely the full path to the file, so it'd look like this.
File1.doc
C:\Path\File1.doc
File2.doc
C:\Path\File2.doc
Could you suggest an effective way to achieve this? Thanks.
You can use a for loop to get all files and then write what you want to a FileList.txt. Please note that the double percent sign is needed in a batch file but not in an interactive cmd.exe (where only one percent sign is needed).
del FileList.txt
for /D %%i in (*) do (
echo %%i >>FileList.txt
echo %%~fi >>FileList.txt
)

How to delete files matching a certain pattern in their name?

I'm creating a batch file that deletes all Rar$DIa0.??? folders in the %TEMP% directory.
Is this possible, and how to do it?
The ??? is three randomized numbers. And that's where I have trouble with - deleting all folders that have Rar$DIa0. in the name.
for /d is designed for just this type of use. Something like this should work (remove one of the % if you're testing from the command line):
for /d %%i in ("%TEMP%\Rar$DIa0.???") do rd "%TEMP%\%%i"
The /d makes it work on directory names instead of file names.
If you want to make it easier on yourself, change to the %TEMP% folder first:
pushdir
cd /d %TEMP%
for /d %%i in ("Rar$DIa0.???") do rd "%%i"
The ??? makes it only act on folders that have three letters after a .. If your folders don't have just a three letter extension, change .??? to .*. If you've got a typo, and there is no actual . in the foldername, just remove it and use Rar$DIa0??? or Rar$DIa0*
You may want to test it first by changing rd to echo to make sure you get the folders you want before actually deleting them.
For more information about for (pun intended) type for /? from a command prompt.
The command line to use in a batch file for this task is:
#for /D %%I in ("%TEMP%\Rar$DIa0.*") do #rd /Q /S "%%I"
Command FOR with option /D searches in folder defined by environment variable TEMP for subfolders with folder name starting with Rar$DIa0. not having hidden or system attribute set.
The loop variable I holds for each found subfolder matching this folder pattern the name of found folder with full path without double quotes although the path to temp folder very often contains 1 or more spaces.
For that reason just the command RD with the parameters /Q for quiet execution and /S for deleting also all subfolders in the specified folder must be called with referencing the current value of loop variable I enclosed in double quotes.
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.
for /?
rd /?
By the way: WinRAR deletes the temporary folders usually automatically, except a file is opened from within an archive for viewing/modifying it in another application and WinRAR is closed before the other application is exited with the opened file. In this case WinRAR can't delete the temporary folder with temporarily extracted file because the file is still opened in another application. Of course also command RD can't delete the temporary folder if this folder is still the current directory of another application or a file in this folder is still opened by another application with a read/write access lock.

Batch file to rename images for WD Live TV

Apologies if this has been answered, the search gives something similar but not exactly what I'm after.
I use XBMC and a Western Digital TV Live as media centers. XBMC uses folder.jpg for movie box art. However, the WD uses both folder.jpg and moviename.jpg.
My folder structure is as follows:
Films\movie1\movie1.mkv(or avi etc...)
Films\movie1\folder.jpg
Films\movie2\movie2.mkv (etc...)
Films\movie2\folder.jpg
What I'm after is a .bat file that will scan the entire films directory, copy the folder.jpg and rename the new jpg using the name of the folder that folder.jpg is in. The original folder.jpg should remain.
Essentially from:
Films\movie1\folder.jpg
To:
Films\movie1\folder.jpg
and
Films\movie1\movie1.jpg
This should happen to each folder in Films.
I'm sure this must be possible but to be honest my knowledge of .bat files is very limited.
You can use a FOR /D loop to iterate over subdirectories of Films:
#ECHO OFF
FOR /D %%I IN ("D:\Path\to\Films\*") DO (
COPY "%%I\folder.jpg" "%%I\%%~nxI.jpg"
)
In the loop, the subdirectory's full path is referenced as %%I and its name alone as %%~nxI (could be just %%~nI if the name never includes a .).
You could run the loop directly from the command prompt, but you'd need to replace the double % characters with single %:
FOR /D %I IN ("D:\Path\to\Films\*") DO COPY "%I\folder.jpg" "%I\%~nxI.jpg"
Please note also that if a moviename.jpg already exists, the COPY command will stop for confirmation of overwriting the file. If you just want to overwrite it anyway without manual confirmation, add the /Y switch:
COPY /Y ...
for /d %%a in (*) do if exist "%%~a\folder.jpg" echo copy /b "%%~a\folder.jpg" "%%~a\%%~na.jpg"
Remove the echo to get it working.

Move all files except some (file pattern) from a DOS command

From a DOS command I want to move all files that do not match a file name pattern.
Something like this:
For example I want to move all files that do not start with "aaa"
for %i in (*) do if not %i == aaa* move %i .\..
XCOPY is designed to work with 'exclude' lists... See below:
dir /b /a-d "source"|findstr /b "aaa" >"%temp%\aaafiles.tmp"
xcopy "source" "destination\" /exclude:%temp%\aaafiles.tmp /y
The first line performs a DIR (directory) listing of the source folder, listing files in bare format (/b) ignoring directory names (/a-d). The output is piped into the FINDSTR command.
FINDSTR looks at each filename and compares it's beginning (/b) with the string "aaa".
If the start of a filename matches the string "aaa", the filename is redirected (written) to the file aaafiles.tmp in the users TEMP directory.
The /b is vital because you don't want to exclude files such as theaaafile.txt.
The XCOPY command copies files from the source folder to the destination folder except files that are listed in aaafiles.tmp.
Prompting to overwrite existing files (/y) is turned off.
source and destination will need to be replaced your own foldernames.
Robocopy is a possibility
robocopy source destination *.* /mov /XF aaa*.*
for options see here http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc733145.aspx
If you don't mind fiddling with the archive bit, you can use it to selectively copy and delete files based on a file mask.
Move (copy and delete) all files except those beginning w/"aaa" from current directory to "dest". May also specify full source path.
attrib +a *.*
attrib -a aaa*.*
xcopy /a [or /m] *.* dest
del /aa /q *.*
One way you can do it is create a list of the files to move in a temporary file. Then use the file in with the for command. Generate the list using findstr.
> dir/b/a-d | findstr /v aaa* > "%temp%\#movelist"
> for /f %f in (%temp%\#movelist) do move %f ...
The first command gets a list of all files (with no directories) in the current directory and then pipes the list to findstr which excludes (/v) filenames that match the pattern and puts it in the file #movelist in the temp directory. The second command just takes those results so you may do what you will with them (move it).
There's probably a better way to do it in a single command without the temporary file, I just don't know how to write it. I'm not sure how to call the dir command from within the for command. AFAIK it only takes program files that exist, not builtin commands.
In some cases it can be made more simple. For example, I had to copy recursively a bunch of directories but excluding all images (png and bmp files), so I simply created an excludeList.txt file containing:
.png
.bmp
and run
xcopy /S /I <source> <dest> /exclude:c:\excludeList.txt
It will match any file or directory containing .png, but not necessarily ending by .png. (I did not investigate if smart use of wildcards or regular expressions are possible).
It does not handle your particular example (for which you have already a good answer) but it solved my problem, and this page is what I found when I googled in search of a solution :)
Not ideal, but moving all files to the destination and moving the files back to the source is a fast way with actual move operation (no copies). Of course this assumes there are no files in destination matching the wildcard.
move source\*.* destination\ && move destination\aaa*.* source\

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