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HyperLamer
Posts: 3515/8210 |
Heh, I never read OS manuals. Windows isn't exactly hard to figure out.  |
Ailure
Posts: 8200/11162 |
Originally posted by Jesper
Depends if you flee in panic whenever you see a command prompt or not. 
Heh, that's why i'm afraid that not many people is going to watch on me when I show my programme in the exhibition we have in two days.
It's run in a command prompt. 
What do I use the most in Windows to look after things? Well... it's the run command. XD |
FreeDOS
Posts: 1194/1657 |
nah... it's my opinion that the Windows Explorer is not built to be very featureful. Heh, I copied winfile.exe from NT4 onto my Win2k so I have a better GUI file manager. |
Jesper
Posts: 2137/2390 |
Depends if you flee in panic whenever you see a command prompt or not. |
FreeDOS
Posts: 1193/1657 |
Doing it from the command prompt is easier, though :p |
Jesper
Posts: 2135/2390 |
Just for posterity, if you want to mass rename a group of files - photos from your camera, perhaps - just select them all and edit the name of the first file and the rest will adjust. It works in XP, but I don't know if it works in older versions of Windows since I just found out two years ago. |
FreeDOS
Posts: 1191/1657 |
Actually, I got the information from my trusty 800-page manual of MS-DOS 5.  |
Prier
Posts: 5516/8392 |
Originally posted by HyperHacker
Well I'll be damned... I didn't know you could rename with wildcards.  ...
Read your trusty DOS 3.3 manual and you'd know that. :\ |
HyperLamer
Posts: 3493/8210 |
Well I'll be damned... I didn't know you could rename with wildcards. I just do "dir /b > names.txt", open names.txt in Textpad, and use some regular expressions to turn each filename into a rename command. Bam, instant batch file.  |
Kario
Posts: 1371/2082 |
Why? What I did worked perfectly. |
windwaker
Posts: 1236/1797 |
Eh, you should probably have tried *.*. |
FreeDOS
Posts: 1187/1657 |
Did it work? |
Kario
Posts: 1350/2082 |
Oh, that took me a little bit to do. There was no file extension at all. Like All Stars was simply "Mario All Stars" no extension at all. So I just put ren *. *.smc |
FreeDOS
Posts: 1186/1657 |
Use a command prompt.
ren *.old *.new |
Kario
Posts: 1345/2082 |
Is there a way to change the extension on 700+ files at once? I just got 768 SNES roms and none of them have an extension. I changed some of them to check them, and they work, but I dont want to do it 1 by 1. Is there some way to changed the extension on all of them at once? |
