After you launch PowerShell, type cd command, followed by the directory of those image files and hit Enter.ĭir | Rename-Item –NewName Now, I am showing, how PowerShell can help you to replace part of all image names to a dash (-) sign.Ģ. Previously I have changed the names of 192 images to wallpaper (sequence number) format. Open Command Prompt, navigate to the folder and type the following command : ren *.htm *.txt and press Enter.ģ. Using this method, here I have shown you how you can batch rename file extensions.Ģ. All images have took base name wallpaper followed by a (space) and (sequence number).

You can see name of the images have been changed. Now, type the base name for those images. Now to batch rename these images first you have to select all the images and right-click on the first file and select Rename.Ģ. So, you can use any of these methods according to your requirements. Different third party applications give you different unique features and more options to bulk rename files that you cannot find in other methods. Where changing file extension names of multiple files can be accomplished by using Command Prompt very easily. Like, if you are changing name of multiple files to a common base name followed by sequence numbers, Windows Explorer method can be effective. Every method can be effective according to your renaming action. I will show you here all these four methods.

There are various methods to batch rename files. This article will show you how to batch rename files in Windows 8. In that case Batch renaming can reduce your time and efforts. Sometime it is very difficult to rename all files manually. You can remove spaces, replace spaces with underscore, uppercase/lowercase filename, add a prefix/suffix, remove/replace strings and also catalog files by adding an incremental number to the file name.Users often need to rename multiple files. Here BatchRenameFiles Tool is a powerful tool, that allows you to quickly rename all the files in a specified directory.

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