rename files – Tjitjing Blog https://blog.tjitjing.com/ This is my blog on technology related stuff and on occation other things too... Thu, 15 Oct 2015 07:16:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.16 Batch rename files in Windows from Command Line https://blog.tjitjing.com/index.php/2015/10/batch-rename-files-in-windows-from-command-line.html https://blog.tjitjing.com/index.php/2015/10/batch-rename-files-in-windows-from-command-line.html#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2015 07:16:21 +0000 http://blog.tjitjing.com/?p=710 Continue reading Batch rename files in Windows from Command Line]]> This is an easy way to add a prefix to any set of files in a Windows folder, from a command prompt type this

[code]for %a in (*.*) do ren "%a" "prefix – %a"[/code]

 

Tried in Windows 10. Thanks to ofer.sheffer in this Stackoverflow post where there is also an example on how to do this in PowerShell.

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