Rename files on disk with t-sql

Question

I am using T-SQL

I have a few excel files located here: C:\\MyFiles\\

I want to remove all the apostrophes in the file names in that directory.<

Answer 1

Try this it will work for you

1) Create a sp as mentioned below

CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.ListPathsXML
@FileSpec VARCHAR(2000),
@order VARCHAR (80) = '/O-D',--sort by date time oldest first
@xmlFileList XML OUTPUT

AS
DECLARE @myfiles TABLE (MyID INT IDENTITY(1,1) PRIMARY KEY, FullPath VARCHAR(2000))
DECLARE @CommandLine VARCHAR(4000)
IF @order IS NOT NULL -- abort if the order is silly
   BEGIN
   SELECT @CommandLine =LEFT('dir "' + @FileSpec + '" /A-D /B /S '+@order,4000)
   INSERT INTO @MyFiles (FullPath)
       EXECUTE xp_cmdshell @CommandLine
   DELETE FROM @MyFiles WHERE fullpath IS NULL
       OR fullpath = 'File Not Found'
   END
SET @xmlFileList = (SELECT fullpath FROM @MyFiles
                         FOR
                          XML PATH('thefile'),
                              ROOT('thefiles'),
                              TYPE)

2) and then give a name of directory where you want to replace the name of files

DECLARE @LotsOfText NVARCHAR(MAX),
       @ii INT,
       @iiMax INT,
       @File VARCHAR(2000),
       @Command NVARCHAR(4000)
DECLARE @files TABLE (MyID INT IDENTITY(1,1) PRIMARY KEY, [Path] VARCHAR(2000))

DECLARE @FileList XML
EXECUTE ListPathsXML 'D:\QAconfig\',
    DEFAULT , @XMLFileList = @FileList OUTPUT

INSERT INTO @files(path)
   SELECT   x.thefile.value('fullpath[1]', 'varchar(2000)') AS [path]
        FROM    @FileList.nodes('//thefiles/thefile') AS x ( thefile )
--don't look at the current errorlog!
SELECT @ii=1, @iiMax=MAX(MyID) FROM @Files
WHILE @ii<=@iiMax
   BEGIN
   SELECT @File= [path] FROM @files WHERE MyID=@ii
   print @File
   SELECT @command='EXEC master..xp_cmdshell' + '''MOVE '+ Replace(@FILE,'''','''''') + ' ' +REPLACE(@FILE,'''','') +''''
   print @command
   EXECUTE sp_ExecuteSQL @command--, N'@lotsOfText nvarchar(max) output ',@lotsoftext output 
   SELECT @ii=@ii+1
   END