Rename files on Windows

Try this:

forfiles /m *.pdf /c "cmd /c ren @path @fname.pdf"

Select allOpen in new window

Make sure you run CMD as admin.  Add /s before /m if you want to recurse.

I'm not sure if this is Windows version specific, but on my Windows 10 system it worked as you want just using the REN command.  Here was my test:

B:\ee\temp\pdf>dir /b
file1.pdf
file2.PDF

B:\ee\temp\pdf>ren *.PDF *.pdf

B:\ee\temp\pdf>dir /b
file1.pdf
file2.pdf

Select allOpen in new window

~bp

Perfect, thanks

Just curious, did you try my last post and it didn't work?  Or just not see it?  Seems like one REN is better than two, but wondering if you got different results.

~bp

Bill Prew,

I did not try yours, it is identical to what I had already tried before I posted the question, did NOT work.

Thanks.

Just FYI if you did need it in the future

forfiles /m *.pdf /c "cmd /c ren @path @fname.pdf"

Select allOpen in new window

is also a one step rename.

Okay, interesting, since as you can see it worked as needed on my Windows 10 system.  Perhaps some other setting affects that, in localization or the like, although I'm not aware of one.  Was this drive the files lived on a local drive, and an NTFS partition?  And are you Win32 or Win64.  Just trying to gather a little more info for future benefit, but if you have other things to work on that's fine too, don't let me slow you down.  :-)

~bp

Bill Prew,

It's a local hard drive. I don't know if it's 32 or 64; how do I find out?

And I don't have a lot of time to waste on this.

Okay, we'll drop it then.  Glad you got a solution.

~bp