REN, RENAME

REN and RENAME are the same command.

Renames files and directories.

Examples:

ren filewithtpyo.txt filewithtypo.txt
ren *.cxx *.cpp

Links:

$ ren /?
Renames a file or files.

RENAME [drive:][path]filename1 filename2.
REN [drive:][path]filename1 filename2.

Note that you cannot specify a new drive or path for your destination file.

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Built-in commands:

* ASSOC

* BREAK

* CALL

* CD, CHDIR

* CLS

* COLOR

* COPY

* DEL, ERASE

* DIR

* DATE

* ECHO

* ELSE

* ENDLOCAL

* EXIT

* FOR

* FTYPE

* GOTO

* IF

* MD, MKDIR

* MKLINK

* MOVE

* PATH

* PAUSE

* POPD

* PROMPT

* PUSHD

* RD, RMDIR

* REN, RENAME

* REM

* SET

* SETLOCAL

* SHIFT

* START

* TIME

* TITLE

* TYPE

* VER

* VERIFY

* VOL

Table Of Contents

0 Introduction

1 How a command line is interpreted

2 Batch reloading

3 Environment variables

4 Switches

5 Error level

6 String processing

7 Command-line arguments

8 Wildcards

9 User input

10 %~ (percent tilde)

11 Functions

12 Calculation

13 Finding files

14 Keyboard shortcuts

15 Paths

16 Arrays

17 Perl one-liners

18 Limitations

19 Built-in commands

20 External commands

21 Legal & credits