#Batch file rename windows 10 series#

Batch Delete Files Using the Command Prompt When it comes to batch deleting files on Windows 10, you have a few options. The Windows PowerShell offers the most flexibility for batch renaming files and is the most powerful renaming tool built into Windows. The following command renames all file extensions from text documents to rich text format documents: ren *.txt *.rtfīefore swapping out file extensions, I recommend taking a backup of the files just in case something goes wrong. That means you can attempt to rename files to similar file types, such as a Word document (.docx) to a text document (.txt), but you'll run into issues if you attempt to convert a Word document into a video type (such as. While this is handy, it can cause issues if you rename it to an incompatible file type. That means you can batch rename file extensions. The ren command can also address file extensions. You can remove the '-budget' suffix using the following command: ren ?-budget.xlsx ?.xlsx

#Batch file rename windows 10 series#

Say you have a series of documents named 'jan-budget.xlsx,' 'feb-budget.xlsx,' 'mar-budget.xlsx,' and so on.

You can use batch file renaming to delete part of a filename, too.