Re: changing multiple partial file names Windows Vista

[Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>]

On 11/15/2010 11:48 AM, Ken Poshedly wrote:
> Is anybody aware of a freeware product that allows replacement of _only specific
> characters_ within multiple filenames?

I do this stuff routinely in cygwin, a free tool that makes MS Windows 
look like a Unix "bash" shell. I would write the set of filenames into a 
file:

ls -1 *660*.fm >tmpfile

(That's a numeral one in "-1", not an ell. It causes the names to be 
formatted as a single column, not spread across the page.)

So tmpfile would now contain:

aaa660aaa.fm
bbb660bbb.fm
etc.

I'd then use emacs (or vi, or whatever) to turn the list of names into 
shell commands that look like this:

mv aaa660aaa.fm aaa550aaa.fm
mv bbb660bbb.fm bbb550bbb.fm
etc.

I would then execute the file:

sh <tmpfile

My preference for Unix (or linux) and emacs stems from my use of them 
since they first appeared, back in the dark ages.
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