Remove Special Characters From File Name

VBSCRIPT

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

'Your folder here
objStartFolder = "X:\MYFOLDER"

Set objFolder = objFSO.GetFolder(objStartFolder)
Set regEx = New RegExp

'Your pattern here
regEx.Pattern = "[&%]"

Set colFiles = objFolder.Files
For Each objFile in colFiles
    objFile.Rename(regEx.Replace(objFile.Name, "")
Next

Panther,

Thanks for your response.

Based on what you provided I am getting an error "Object doesn't support this property or method:" on Line 14 Char 5...  

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

'Change Folder as Needed to point to the correct path
objStartFolder = "C:\Users\pardone\Desktop\SR's\SR 1171 CLM Servers Project"

Set objFolder = objFSO.GetFolder(objStartFolder)
Set regEx = New RegExp

'Your pattern here
regEx.Pattern = "[?""#%&*:<>\{}|~]"

Set colFiles = objFolder.Files
For Each objFile in colFiles
    objFile.Rename(regEx.Replace(objFile.Name, ""))
Next

It looks like this will only resolve for the 2 characters (&%)

How do I handle the others ( ? " # * : < > \ { | } ~)?

Also I do not understand how the path is defined... does the batch file have to reside in the folder that you want to search?

As to the VBScript error, the File object in the Scripting Runtime library does not have a Rename method.  You would have to use the Move method.

Dim objFSO, objStartFolder, objFile, regEx
Const StartPath = "C:\Folder\Subfolder"

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFolder = objFSO.GetFolder(StartPath)
Set regEx = New RegExp

'Your pattern here
regEx.Pattern = "[?""#%&*:<>\{}|~]"

Set colFiles = objFolder.Files
For Each objFile in colFiles
    objFile.Move regEx.Replace(objFile.Name, "")
Next

Set regEx  =Nothing
Set objFile = Nothing
Set objStartFolder = Nothing
Set objFSO = Nothing

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Right, I missed that. Not paying attention i guess.

This doesn't work if there is more than one special character in the filename?  also what would you have to do to replace the special character with normal chars.  e.g.  'file&Folder.txt' to 'file and folder.txt'