renaming files as a batch

[Emily Harrington]

Hello,

I am trying to rename CHAT files to have consistent file names. However, I am struggling to get the ren command to do this. 

Here are examples of the file names:

Play_T33_CCX_1002_cc.sltin.cha

Play_T33_CCX_1011_video_z.sltin.cha

PLAY_T33_CCX_1062_video_z.cha

Ideally, I'd like all files to be named Play_T33_CCX_#### where the #### is the unique identifier for that participant. This would remove the extra information after the unique identifier which differs across the file names. 

Is there a way to do this as a batch? 

Thank you,

Emily Harrington, PhD, CCC-SLP

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 

[Leonid Spektor]

Hi Emily,

Please try commands below and see which one works best for you. Make sure to backup files in case rename command does something wrong.

ren Play_T33_CCX_*_*.cha Play_T33_CCX_*.cha

ren *X_*_*.cha *X_*.cha

ren *_*_*_*_*.cha *_*_*_*.cha

Leonid.

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[Emily Harrington]

Hi Leonid,

The first command worked well.

Thank you! 

Emily 

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