Rename multiple files in a folder, add a prefix (Windows)

纵然是瞬间 提交于 2019-11-27 09:07:13

问题


I'd like to batch rename files in a folder, prefixing the folder's name into the new names. i.e. files in C:\house chores\ will all be renamed house chores - $old_name.


回答1:


Option 1: Using Windows PowerShell

Open the windows menu. Type: "PowerShell" and open the 'Windows PowerShell' command window.

Goto folder with desired files: e.g. cd "C:\house chores" Notice: address must incorporate quotes "" if there are spaces involved.

You can use 'dir' to see all the files in the folder. Using '|' will pipeline the output of 'dir' for the command that follows.

Notes: 'dir' is an alias of 'Get-ChildItem'. See: wiki: cmdlets. One can provide further functionality. e.g. 'dir -recurse' outputs all the files, folders and sub-folders.

What if I only want a range of files?

Instead of 'dir |' I can use:

dir | where-object -filterscript {($_.Name -ge 'DSC_20') -and ($_.Name -le 'DSC_31')} |

For batch-renaming with the directory name as a prefix:

dir | Rename-Item -NewName {$_.Directory.Name + " - " + $_.Name}

Option 2: Using Command Prompt

In the folder press shift+right-click : select 'open command-window here'

for %a in (*.*) do ren "%a" "prefix - %a"

If there are a lot of files, it might be good to add an '@echo off' command before this and an 'echo on' command at the end.




回答2:


The problem with the two Powershell answers here is that the prefix can end up being duplicated since the script will potentially run over the file both before and after it has been renamed, depending on the directory being resorted as the renaming process runs. To get around this, simply use the -Exclude option:

Get-ChildItem -Exclude "house chores-*" | rename-item -NewName { "house chores-" + $_.Name }

This will prevent the process from renaming any one file more than once.




回答3:


Free Software 'Bulk Rename Utility' also works well (and is powerful for advanced tasks also). Download and installation takes a minute.

See screenshots and tutorial on original website.

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I cannot provide step-by-step screenshots as the images will have to be released under Creative Commons License, and I do not own the screenshots of the software.

Disclaimer: I am not associated with the said software/company in any way. I liked the product for my own task, it serves OP's and similar requirements, thus recommending.




回答4:


This worked for me, first cd in the directory that you would like to change the filenames to and then run the following command:

Get-ChildItem | rename-item -NewName { "house chores-" + $_.Name }



回答5:


I was tearing my hair out because for some items, the renamed item would get renamed again (repeatedly, unless max file name length was reached). This was happening both for Get-ChildItem and piping the output of dir. I guess that the renamed files got picked up because of a change in the alphabetical ordering. I solved this problem in the following way:

Get-ChildItem -Path . -OutVariable dirs
foreach ($i in $dirs) { Rename-Item $i.name ("<MY_PREFIX>"+$i.name) }

This "locks" the results returned by Get-ChildItem in the variable $dirs and you can iterate over it without fear that ordering will change or other funny business will happen.

Dave.Gugg's tip for using -Exclude should also solve this problem, but this is a different approach; perhaps if the files being renamed already contain the pattern used in the prefix.

(Disclaimer: I'm very much a PowerShell n00b.)




回答6:


Based on @ofer.sheffer answer this command will mass rename and append the current date to the filename. ie "file.txt" becomes "20180329 - file.txt" for all files in the current folder

for %a in (*.*) do ren "%a" "%date:~-4,4%%date:~-7,2%%date:~-10,2% - %a"



回答7:


I know it's an old question but I learned alot from the various answers but came up with my own solution as a function. This should dynamically add the parent folder as a prefix to all files that matches a certain pattern but only if it does not have that prefix already.

function Add-DirectoryPrefix($pattern) {
    # To debug, replace the Rename-Item with Select-Object
    Get-ChildItem -Path .\* -Filter $pattern -Recurse | 
        Where-Object {$_.Name -notlike ($_.Directory.Name + '*')} | 
        Rename-Item -NewName {$_.Directory.Name + '-' + $_.Name}
        # Select-Object -Property Directory,Name,@{Name = 'NewName'; Expression= {$_.Directory.Name + '-' + $_.Name}}
}

https://gist.github.com/kmpm/4f94e46e569ae0a4e688581231fa9e00




回答8:


Based on @ofer.sheffer answer, this is the CMD variant for adding an affix (this is not the question, but this page is still the #1 google result if you search affix). It is a bit different because of the extension.

for %a in (*.*) do ren "%~a" "%~na-affix%~xa"

You can change the "-affix" part.



来源:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20874915/rename-multiple-files-in-a-folder-add-a-prefix-windows

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