Find and rename files with no extension?
For windows batch files, this will rename only files with no extension to the .bla extension:
rename *. *.bla
Notice the first argument is a star and a dot: *.
The second argument is: *.bla
The start dot (*.) combination represents files with no extensions in this context.
Before:
06/21/2009 11:57 PM 6 test
06/21/2009 11:57 PM 7 test.exe
06/21/2009 11:57 PM 7 test2
After:
06/21/2009 11:57 PM 6 test.bla
06/21/2009 11:57 PM 7 test.exe
06/21/2009 11:57 PM 7 test2.bla
Additional note: The opposite commandline would rename all .bla files into no extension files.
EDIT:
For recursively renaming files with no extension across subdirectories (doesn't support spaces in paths):
@echo off
FOR /F %%i in ('dir /b/s/A-d') DO (
if "%%~xi" == "" rename "%%~fi" "%%~ni.bla"
)
EDIT2:
For recursively renaming files with no extension across subdirectories (supports spaces in path):
@echo off
for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%i in ('dir /b/s/A-d') DO (
if "%%~xi" == "" rename "%%~fi" "%%~ni.bla"
)
Here's another possible command for renaming files with no extensions recursively (assuming that file paths don't contain spaces):
for /f %i in ('dir *. /b /s /a-d') do rename "%~fi" "%~ni.bla"
Batch version (with doubled %
):
@echo off
for /f %%i in ('dir *. /b /s /a-d') do (
rename "%%~fi" "%%~ni.bla"
)
If file or folder names contain spaces, use this command instead:
for /f "tokens=* delims= " %i in ('dir *. /b /s /a-d') do rename "%~fi" "%~ni.bla"
Batch version:
@echo off
for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%i in ('dir *. /b /s /a-d') do (
rename "%%~fi" "%%~ni.bla"
)
Edit: here's even shorter one-liner that supports spaces in paths:
for /r %i in (*.) do ren "%~fi" "%~ni.bla"
Batch version:
@for /r %%i in (*.) do ren "%%~fi" "%%~ni.bla"
to do this in subdirectories use this:
for /f %a in ('dir /b /ad /s') do rename %a\*. *.bla
if you are using this in a batch file, you need to double the '%'
for /f %%a in ('dir /b /ad /s') do rename %%a\*. *.bla
edit:
and if you have spaces in your directory names, you can try this (batch version):
for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in ('dir /b /ad /s') do rename "%%a\*." "*.bla"