Can someone throw me together a quick .bat file?

[Daniel2807]

I need a .bat file to, for example, rename file1 to file2, and file2 to file1.
I have tried putting this into a bat file to no avail

@Echo ON
Ren d:\file1 file2
Ren d:\file2 file1

Can someone help please?
Thanks

 

[derekullo]

I'm assuming you want to do more than 2 renames?

It's easier to do it manually for just 2 renames than creating a batch file for it.


navigate to the directory or put the directory in the command

rename D:\file1.txt file2.txt

ren or rename should work, don't forget an extension for the files.


Note if there is a space in the file name you must use quotations.

rename D:\"file 1.txt" "file 2.txt"

 

[USAFRet]

I need a .bat file to, for example, rename file1 to file2, and file2 to file1.
I have tried putting this into a bat file to no avail

@Echo ON
Ren d:\file1 file2
Ren d:\file2 file1

Can someone help please?
Thanks

You need another line in there:
Ren d:\file1 file3
Ren d:\file2 file1
Ren d:\file3 file2

 

[derekullo]

If you wanted to do more than one rename at the same time you need to use a wildcard "*"

rename *.rtf *.txt

This changes the extension of any RTF file in the directory to a txt file.


Or even

rename file*.txt awesomefile*.txt


renames all

file*.txt

file1.txt file2.txt ...

to

awesomefile1.txt awesomefile2.txt

 

[Nigel Spike]

Do you want to rename FILE1 to FILE2 and then rename it back to FILE1?

If not, and FILE2 already exists you can't use the same name, but have to follow the directions given by USAFRet.

Nigel