Renaming files

The Mighty Dubs

I have a folder which contains about 3000 images. They are all named e.g. 12345_01.jpg. I basically need to save them down to 12345.jpg loosing the "_01" bit.
Any suggestions how i could go about this

allexxei

What OS do you have there ?

The Mighty Dubs

Win XP Pro

allexxei

I don't think there is something allready done in the OS to help you to rename all files, so you should write a vbs file to do that

dazberry

rename ?????_??.jpg ?????.jpg

D.

allexxei

I know ! , but you can't do it bulk with rename Wasn't this your problem ?

That's why I said you should have a script to run this rename command

allexxei

Try this

rename *_01.jpg *.jpg

lynchie

The Mighty Dubs wrote: »

I have a folder which contains about 3000 images. They are all named e.g. 12345_01.jpg. I basically need to save them down to 12345.jpg loosing the "_01" bit.
Any suggestions how i could go about this

Plenty of free bulk file renamers around. Do a quick google.

00sully

I wrote a nice app that does this with some nice options. drop me a pm and ill send it on to ya

carveone

The Mighty Dubs wrote: »

I have a folder which contains about 3000 images. They are all named e.g. 12345_01.jpg. I basically need to save them down to 12345.jpg loosing the "_01" bit.
Any suggestions how i could go about this

As dazberry sez, question marks will work if they are fixed width.

Eg: rename ?_foo.jpg ?.jpg works for me.

Else you can do it with a bit of messing:

dir /b *_*.jpg > 1
for /F "delims=_ tokens=1*" %i in (1) do rename "%i_%j" "%i.jpg"

The dir makes a file called "1" with a list of names. The for options makes an entry like: 12345_01.jpg into two parameters. %i is "12345" and "%j" is the rest of the line. Thus for that file the command would be:

rename "12345_01.jpg" "12345.jpg"

The quotes are there in case the filename has spaces. Hope this helps.

Evil Phil

00sully wrote: »

I wrote a nice app that does this with some nice options. drop me a pm and ill send it on to ya

What part of don't ask for private messages in thread don't you understand?