Help Renaming with Command Prompt

[NaiMan]

Anyone know how to rename,

hi11112244.txt --> hello11112244.txt

using command prompt?

i tried: ren hi*.txt hello*.txt
i get: hello12244
i want: hello11112244

please help

thanks!

=)

 

[NaiMan]

nm i found it

 

[xtknight]

Originally posted by: NaiMan
nm i found it

What is it?

 

[Mutilator]

He probably used dir /x to see DOS names and then renamed accordingly.

Or simply
rename hi11112244.txt hello11112244.txt

 

[NaiMan]

i thought i found out, but i was wrong... =P

any luck?

this thing is so... driving me nuts

i tried

ren hi??*.txt hello????????.txt

i thought it worked, but i looked again and i was wrong agin

 

[bwnv]

How about
Copy hi.txt hello.txt ?
Command line doesn't always do what you expect if you don't use the old 8.3 naming convention.

 

[NaiMan]

Originally posted by: bwnv
How about
Copy hi.txt hello.txt ?
Command line doesn't always do what you expect if you don't use the old 8.3 naming convention.

still not working.

 

[Ramma2]

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

J:\>c:

C:\>cd test

C:\Test>dir
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is B433-2F6F

Directory of C:\Test

12/28/2006 03:35 PM <DIR> .
12/28/2006 03:35 PM <DIR> ..
12/28/2006 03:35 PM 0 hi11112244.txt
1 File(s) 0 bytes
2 Dir(s) 151,278,936,064 bytes free

C:\Test>move hi11112244.txt hello11112244.txt

C:\Test>dir
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is B433-2F6F

Directory of C:\Test

12/28/2006 03:36 PM <DIR> .
12/28/2006 03:36 PM <DIR> ..
12/28/2006 03:35 PM 0 hello11112244.txt
1 File(s) 0 bytes
2 Dir(s) 151,278,936,064 bytes free

C:\Test>



Edit: move hi11112244.txt hello11112244.txt is the command you are looking for, if you missed it from above.