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okay so first of all in this video I'm going to show you a few different ways of renaming multiple files all in one go in Windows so I have a folder here with some files in it and these files are output from a computer model showing the sources of air at a location in Taiwan but I'm just using them as an example and the first thing I'm going to do is to hold down shift and then right-click and select open PowerShell window here and this opens the windows powershell then in in here I'm going to type dir and this stands for directory and basically what this is telling it is to list all of the files in this folder then I'm going to select the pipe symbol and this is the pipe symbol is in different places on different keyboards but what the pipe symbol tells it to do is to take all of the files listed in this folder and then pipe it into something else and that something else is going to be renamed - item - new name so what this is saying at the moment is to take all of the files in this folder and to rename them and to give them a new name then I am going to type curly brackets and then the dollar sign underscore dot name and this is basically telling it to use all of the names of all the files in this folder and then I'm gonna tie it with - replace so I'm going to replace something in all of the names of the files in this folder and then I am going to type quotation marks then tie one and then close quotation marks comma and then open quotation marks TW close quotation marks and then close the brackets and what this is telling it to do is to take all of the files in this folder and then for any of them that have the word Taiwan in it to replace that with TW so when I press ENTER that is what should happen and now you can see all of the files have been renamed with a TWM now if I press the up arrow in Windows PowerShell it will show me the piece of code that I just typed and I am going to edit this to show another example so say if I wanted to get rid of all of these spaces in a file name and replace them with dashes I would do this by putting inside quotation marks a space and then here I would put a dash and this will replace all of these spaces in my file names with dashes and if I press ENTER you can see that that has now happened there are no dashes here between the TW and the numbers where there used to be a space there are lots of computer programs that can only work with files that don't have spaces in them so this is something that people commonly want to be able to do now the next example I'm going to show is a way of removing something from a file name and the easiest way of doing this is just to use the replace feature but to replace it with nothing so I'm going to type TW - in here and then in this set of quotation marks I'm just going to leave nothing in between them and as I am replacing the TW - with nothing is the same as removing it so when I press Enter the TW - just disappears now the next example that I'm going to show how to add something to the beginning of a file name and I'm going to delete all of this because I don't need it and then here I'm going to add in quotation marks Taiwan and then a dash and then close quotation marks and then a space and then add and then another space so what this is now telling it to do is to add Taiwan to the beginning of every single file name now if I run it at the moment what it would do is it would add Taiwan to every single file name but then it would do it again and again and it would scroll through the files over and over again until it added multiple Taiwan's to every single file name in order to stop it from doing that I need to add something in here I need to add a dash exclude and then in quotation marks Taiwan - and then a star and then close quotation marks and the star is a wild-card and it can represent anything so what this is now saying is to list all of the files in this folder excluding the ones that begin with Taiwan now if I run this by pressing enter it should work properly and you can see it's now added Taiwan to all of my file names now the next example I'm going to show is how to add something to the end of a file name now I don't need this bit in here this time and I can't use the name feature this time and that is because if I added something to the end of this it would add it on but after the file extension the file extension is what tells windows what kind of file it is so instead I'm needed to use a name and then I'm going to add let's say - example in quotation marks to the end of this then I'm going to add a dollar sign underscore dot extension and now what this is telling it to do is to add example onto the end of every single file name but before the extension so now if I press ENTER it adds example onto the end of each of the file names now there are lots of different things that PowerShell can do when it comes to renaming files I'm just showing a few examples here but I have shown how to replace something in a file name with something else how to remove a something from a file name how to add something to the beginning of a file name and how to add something to the end of a file name that should cover the vast majority of what most people need to be able to do when it comes to renaming multiple files now if PowerShell seems complicated to you I'm going to spend the next few minutes showing some other methods of renaming files so the next method I'm going to show involves coming up to the bar here and deleting all of this and typing CMD and then enter and this opens up the windows command prompt which is quite similar to the windows powershell in a lot of different ways and it can be used in a similar way to rename files so I'm going to type here rename and then in quotation marks I'm going to type Taiwan and - and then I'm going to put a star in here and the star is a wild-card and can represent anything and then I'm going to close the quotation marks and then put a space and then open them up again and type Taiwan space wild-card and then close quotation marks and then when I press ENTER this should rename all of the files so the Taiwan has now changed to a lowercase T and in addition to that the dash here has been changed to a space so I've renamed all of the files that had Taiwan in them with this instead now I can also do an R e 10 which is very similar to the rename feature these are two features rename and run it can be used pretty much interchangeably at least at this level and this time I'm gonna take Taiwan space stop and I am going to remove this and I'm going to do that by typing lots of slashes now I need to make sure the number of slashes is the same as the number of characters so I'm going to do 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 for the space and then the star again and then close quotation marks and this is going to remove the word Taiwan and the space from the beginning of all of my file names the slashes more or less just sort of fade into nothingness and now the next thing I'm going to show is re N and then I'm going to change everything with a 2015 in it to a 2016 and this can be useful if you've accidentally put in at the wrong year or you want to make copies of lots of your files but you want to update them for a new year so now when I press ENTER those all of these files have now changed to 2016 now I another feature in Windows command prompt is type a for and them a percentage sign and and then in and then in brackets star dot star close brackets do re n so basically what this is saying is the percentage sign under a R in this case representing all of the file names in this file and it's saying for every single file name that matches these features so the star dot star pretty much says to take all of the files because it represents everything so for all of the file names do a Ren so do a rename rename all of the files and I'm going to do the percentage sign a in quotation marks so I'm taking all of the file names and I'm going to add a prefix to it so is taking all of the file names and it's adding prefix to the percentage sign a and then when I press Enter because it's a full loop it's gonna scroll through each of the files in tone which is why they all pop up like that but you can see up here it's now added prefix to all of my file names now Windows command prompt just like powershell has a lot of different options when it comes to renaming files and i'm just showing a few examples here and in general windows powershell is more powerful than windows command prompt now there's just a couple more things that i wanted to show you there's actually a couple of useful features within the Windows File Explorer for renaming files so if I select this file here and press f2 to rename it I can rename it example and then instead of pressing enter I can press tab and it will move me along to the next file in the list and I can rename this one and then press tab and then rename the next one and press the tab and you can see that this is a slightly quicker way of manually renaming files in windows now another way of doing this is to press ctrl a to select all of the files and then press f2 and rename the first file and then press ENTER and it will rename all of the other files as well so the first file is Taiwan and then in brackets it has a 1 and then in brackets a 2 and then 3 etc so this is useful if you want all of your files to have almost exactly the same name ok and that is it