Help with renaming folder items ?

[jim.t]

I'm gonna show my ignorance, but is there a way or tool that you can rename every entry in a folder with a blanket action? Like changing "xxx xxxx" to "test xxx xxxx". I'm dealing with alot of music tracks and I DO NOT want to constantly and individually rename these guys.

[jim.t]

Guys, I know this question can't stump everyone...or is it just to easy. Please refresh my memory with this one.

[OuTpaTienT]

In a DOS window you could do this:

ren * ???????????????????????????A.*

will add an "A" at the end of each name. Make sure you use enough question marks to make it at least 1 digit longer than your longest filename.

I though you could do this using just the astrick but it not working how I remembered. (of course I'm on Win2000, that might be it).

also,

ren 123* ???????????????????????????B.*

would ad a "B" at the end of all files that begin with "123".

hmmmm, I think Win2000 has chnaged things, but play around with the REN (short for RENAME) command. You'll see there's a lot it can do.

[jim.t]

thanks Out, is it only possible in DOS and not with any Windows functions? I couldn't remember.

[Fingers]

You could use one of the freeware renaming utilities that can be found at Freeware Home (http://www.freewarehome.com/utilities/rename.html)