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Fix Error Of Duplicate Folders When Renaming Folders

script I use

@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion

pushd "c:\temp"

for /D %%F in (*) do (
  set fn=%%~nF
  ren "%%~F" "!fn:~0,-4!
)

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I had this question after viewing Remove last few characters of a folder name.

Okay I found this script does what I want but the Issue I have is that with folders that will end up with the same name I wish to Merge them and if their is content inside these folders that are the same than its OK overwrite them aswell.

So Say

Folder 1
--dog.txt
--cat.mp4
--pool.jpg

folder 2
--cat.mp4
--honey.mp4
--car.mp4

so the merge result will be

folder
--dog.txt
--cat.mp4
--pool.jpg
--honey.mp4
--car.mp4

I am on windows 10 if that matters.

NVIT

- Save this as a .bat file.
- Open a CMD window
- Run the bat
- If it looks correct, remove the ECHO words to run it for real.

@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion

pushd "c:\temp"

for /D %%F in (*) do (
  set fn=%%~nF
  if exist "!fn:~0,-4!\*."
    ECHO copy /y "%%~F" "!fn:~0,-4!"
  ) else (
    ECHO ren "%%~F" "!fn:~0,-4!"
  )
)

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Bill Prew

Are there just files under each folder you are processing, or could there be subfolders as well?

~bp

Chris Lopez

ASKER

NVIT,

That didnt seems to work

-

BP,

It will just be file's in the folders no sub directories.

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Bill Prew

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