rename

Renaming files by reformatting existing filenames – placeholders in replacement strings used with the -replace operator

Martin Brandl’s answer provides an elegant and effective solution, but it’s worth digging deeper: PowerShell’s -replace operator (… -replace <search>[, <replace>]): Takes a regular expression as its first operand, <search> (the search expression), and invariably matches globally, i.e., it replaces all matches. ‘bar’ -replace ‘[ra]’, ‘@’ -> ‘b@@’ If you want to replace a literal … Read more

Renaming a file sequence

Try this import os, os.path # simple version for working with CWD #print (len([name for name in os.listdir(‘.’) if os.path.isfile(name)])) # path joining version for other paths DIR = r”folder” a=print (len([name for name in os.listdir(DIR) if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(DIR, name))])) print(a) # Python program to rename all file # names in your directory os.chdir(‘folder2’) print(os.getcwd()) COUNT … Read more