Bulk Rename Utility

Hi,

i have been using the gui version of bulk rename for awhile to achieve this but I am having instances where I have sometimes dozens of individual folders that I need to rename files inside them and trying to reduce the amount of clicking it requires.

Currently I have individual folders that have 1 file in each of these folders that I would like to rename as the folder name. I would appreciate any help in creating script for use with command line version. I have a screenshot below showing what I am currently doing with the gui version of bulk rename now for reference.



Thanks!

As a start, mess around with this & see where it gets you.
(In this case, perhaps in general, command line ordering is important; i.e., the /REMOVENAME switch needs to come before [at least some of] the others...)

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brc32.exe  /removename  /appendfolder:P:___:1  /pattern:*.TXT  /recursive


(I stuck the underlines in there only to make changes more apparent.)

Thanks for the sample code!

I ran the following command:
C:\BRC\BRC64.exe /removename /appendfolder:P::1 /pattern:*.TXT /recursive

Unfortunately it didn't rename any of the files. Below are screenshots of the results.

Please note that /Pattern is case-sensitive, so you might need something like:
C:\BRC\BRC64 /Pattern:"*.txt *.TXT" /Recursive /RemoveName /NoDup /AppendFolder:P::1

That renames files like: ParentFolder, but if any folder has more than 1-file:
It starts renaming like: ParentFolder_1, ParentFolder_2, etc (they dont show that way in the preview).
Cheers.

It looks like that command will work to rename the files but it didn't actually rename the files, they still kept the original file name. Below is a screenshot of what I ran and results.




Thanks!

Once you're happy with the preview, and you're not worried about more than one file per SubFolder.
Just add /Execute to the end of your command-line, that will actually perform the renames.
Cheers!

Thanks for that! Tested with the execute switch and all good now. Considered this resolved!

Thanks everyone for the help!

How do you get the screenshots in the forum?

You can click the Img button when you are replying.


Then you need to have the image online somewhere so you can add the URL for it between the [img} tags. I use imgur but probably any online image host will work.

Thanks. I'll keep that in mind but I usually do not use any kind of cloud (old fashioned).

I appreciate the quick response.