{"id":39,"date":"2012-05-03T07:55:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T07:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pheonixsolutions.com\/?p=39"},"modified":"2026-06-21T18:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T12:46:15","slug":"using-for-loop-to-rename-all-files-in-a-folder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pheonixsolutions.com\/blog\/using-for-loop-to-rename-all-files-in-a-folder\/","title":{"rendered":"Using For Loop to Rename All Files in a Folder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Introduction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Renaming multiple files one by one can be a time-consuming and error-prone task, especially when working with a large number of files. A <strong>for loop<\/strong> in a shell script allows you to automate this process by iterating through every file in a directory and applying a consistent naming pattern. This method is commonly used in Linux systems to rename log files, images, backups, documents, or any other group of files efficiently. Using a for loop not only saves time but also ensures consistency and reduces the risk of manual mistakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Prerequisites<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Before using a for loop to rename all files in a folder, ensure the following requirements are met:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A Linux operating system or a Unix-based environment.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Access to a terminal with a user account that has permission to rename files in the target directory.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Basic knowledge of Linux commands such as <code>cd<\/code>, <code>ls<\/code>, and <code>mv<\/code>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The files to be renamed should be located in a single directory.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It is recommended to create a backup of important files before performing bulk renaming operations.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Verify the current filenames using the <code>ls<\/code> command before executing the renaming script.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">IMPLEMENTATION<\/h2>\n\n\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 600; text-decoration: underline;\">Using For Loop to Rename All Files in a Folder<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 600; text-decoration: underline;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 600; text-decoration: underline;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">This is the batch script for windows to rename\u00c2\u00a0all files in a folder on windows. This works well perfectly. This was useful for me. It may help others to do the same. I was worried to change the files name and folder using script, atlast i find my script to fix the issue.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">rem: Some testing batch command in Windows XP<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">setlocal ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">@echo off<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">rem ***************** Test 1 **********************<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">rem about variables<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">set var1= This is a variable VAR1<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">set var2=\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;This is a variable VAR2\u00e2\u20ac\u00b2<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">set var3=\u00e2\u20ac\u009dThis is a variable VAR3\u00e2\u20ac\u00b3<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">echo %var1%<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">echo \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc%var2%\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">echo \u00e2\u20ac\u0153%var3%\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">rem ***********************************************<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">rem Conclusion from test 1 is that assigning text<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">rem value to variable doesn\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;t need to be quoted<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">rem ***********************************************<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">rem **************** Test 2 **********************<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">rem about for loop<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">set count=0<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">for %%a in (1 2 3) do (<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">echo !count!<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">set \/A count=!count!+1<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">echo %%a<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">)<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">for %%A in (1 2) do for %%B in (A B) DO ECHO %%A%%B<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">rem **********************************************<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">rem Conclusion from test 2 is that variable in<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">rem the for loop has to be single character like<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">rem %%a. %%var will not work<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">rem you don\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;t have to have<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">rem setlocal ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION for the count<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">rem to work but you do have to use !count! instead<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">rem of %count%<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">rem **********************************************<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">rem **************** Test 3 **********************<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">rem use for loop to list all .txt file names<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">for \/f %%a in (\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;dir \/b transaction*.txt\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;) do (<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">echo %%a<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">)<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">rem **********************************************<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">rem I don\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;t know what the switch \/f in the for<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">rem statement and the \/A switch in the set<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">rem statement mean but it works.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">rem Can someone explain the switch? =)<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">rem **********************************************<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">rem **************** Test 4 **********************<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">rem rename all .txt file so that all of them<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">rem starts with \u00e2\u20ac\u0153trans\u00e2\u20ac\u009d instead of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153transaction\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">for \/f \u00e2\u20ac\u0153tokens=1,2 delims=_\u00e2\u20ac\u009d %%a in (\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;dir \/b transaction*.txt\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;) do (<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">if \u00e2\u20ac\u0153%%a\u00e2\u20ac\u009d==\u00e2\u20ac\u009dtransaction\u00e2\u20ac\u009d echo yes<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">echo %%a<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">echo %%b<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">ren %%a_%%b tran_%%b<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">)<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">rem **********************************************<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">rem The above script works fine. It renames all<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">rem files named in partern transaction_XXXX.txt<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">rem to trans_XXXXX.txt<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">rem \u00e2\u20ac\u0153tokens=1,2 delims=_\u00e2\u20ac\u009d tells it to separate<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">rem whatever returned in dir command in two parts<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">rem using the first \u00e2\u20ac\u0153_\u00e2\u20ac\u009d found and put the first<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">rem token in %%a, the second in %%b.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">rem It is very powerful and interesting!<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">rem **********************************************<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">goto :eof<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">One additional remark: if you decide NOT to set ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION, then the !variable! syntax fails. Not sure if that means that %variable% would work in that situation instead, but just thought I\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;d be explicit about where ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION had an effect (though obviously it\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;s relevant in other parts too)<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Conclusion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Using a <strong>for loop<\/strong> to rename all files in a folder is a simple yet powerful way to automate repetitive file management tasks in Linux. It eliminates the need for manual renaming, improves efficiency, and ensures uniform file naming. By understanding the basic structure of a for loop and the <code>mv<\/code> command, you can easily customize renaming operations to meet different requirements. 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