<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Hi Emily,<div><br></div><div>Please try commands below and see which one works best for you. Make sure to backup files in case rename command does something wrong.<br><div><br></div><div>ren Play_T33_CCX_*_*.cha Play_T33_CCX_*.cha</div><div><br></div><div>ren *X_*_*.cha *X_*.cha</div><div><br></div><div>ren *_*_*_*_*.cha *_*_*_*.cha<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On May 20, 2025, at 14:04, Emily Harrington <emily.kae.harrington@gmail.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div>Hello,<br><div><br></div><div>I am trying to rename CHAT files to have consistent file names. However, I am struggling to get the ren command to do this. </div><div><br></div><div>Here are examples of the file names:</div><div>Play_T33_CCX_1002_cc.sltin.cha<br></div><div>Play_T33_CCX_1011_video_z.sltin.cha<br></div><div>PLAY_T33_CCX_1062_video_z.cha</div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>Is there a way to do this as a batch? </div><div><br></div><div>Thank you,</div><div><br></div><div>Emily Harrington, PhD, CCC-SLP</div><div>University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign </div><div><br></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>
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