Batch Rename with Powershell

and I would just paste this into power shell? Or would it be a .bat file?   I tried pasting it into powershell but nothing happened

Here is a BAT script approach, save as a .BAT file, adjust SETs near the top, and test, test, test...

@eho off
setlocal

set BaseDir=\\server-bgs-bg02\My_Data\master\IMAGES\
set ListFile=c:\temp\list.txt

for /f "usebackq tokens=1-2 delims=," %%A in ("%ListFile%") do (
  ren "%BaseDir%\%%~A" "%%~B"
)

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~bp

I tried this and it is saying that it cannot find the path specified (on the server). It is reading the csv correctly, which is located in the temp file.. just not finding the network paths..

Note - I do not have admin privileges - Not sure if that is effecting it or not... but, I can access the network in powershell... (obviously just not in regular command prompt..)

sorry, this is probably something basic - I just dont have any experience with it yet

Sorry, extra backslash, should be like this:

@eho off
setlocal

set BaseDir=\\server-bgs-bg02\My_Data\master\IMAGES
set ListFile=c:\temp\list.txt

for /f "usebackq tokens=1-2 delims=," %%A in ("%ListFile%") do (
  ren "%BaseDir%\%%~A" "%%~B"
)

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~bp

Hey, see attached and below... what am I missing here?

@eho off
setlocal

set BaseDir="c:\temp\testing"
set ListFile="c:\temp\testing.csv"

for /f "usebackq tokens=1-2 delims=," %%A in ("%ListFile%") do (
  ren "%BaseDir%\%%~A" "%%~B"
)
example.pdf
testing.txt

and i originally tried it with .txt and without quotes.. just fyi

Don't use any quotes in the two SETs, as I showed.

~bp

Yes, I tried without them as well without any luck

I tested here, this worked for me, what do you get when you run it?

@echo off
setlocal

set BaseDir=b:\ee\EE28961920\the files
set ListFile=b:\ee\EE28961920\list.txt

for /f "usebackq skip=1 tokens=1-2 delims=," %%A in ("%ListFile%") do (
  ren "%BaseDir%\%%~A" "%%~B"
)

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~bp

it just opens the command prompt window for a second, then it closes ... without the files being renamed

Yes, mine works if you just paste it into PowerShell.  You could also save it as a .ps1 file and run that file from PS (but you should read up on the basics of running PowerShell scripts if you're not familiar with that).

Using your example input .CSV (which you posted as "testing.txt", though it is in a .csv format), the problem is with the new file names.  "/" is not an allowed character.  Replace all those with something else, like a dash "-", and it works fine.  Almost any problem will result in an error being displayed (as it did when I tried to use your sample .CSV).

Try this for debugging and see what it displays.

@echo on
setlocal

set BaseDir=b:\ee\EE28961920\the files
set ListFile=b:\ee\EE28961920\list.txt

for /f "usebackq skip=1 tokens=1-2 delims=," %%A in ("%ListFile%") do (
  ren "%BaseDir%\%%~A" "%%~B"
)
pause

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~bp

That worked after I switched the / with the -.     That may have also prevented the .bat file from working correctly as well, BP.  

Thank you both for your help,  i have saved both codes for future ref.