renaming files as a batch

[Emily Harrington]

Hi Leonid,

The first command worked well.

Thank you!

Emily

On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 2:12 PM Leonid Spektor <spektor at andrew.cmu.edu>
wrote:

> 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.
>
> On May 20, 2025, at 14:04, Emily Harrington <
> emily.kae.harrington at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
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