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copied!<p>I have several hundred *.mp3 files in c:\files. There are all imaginable filenames in there like</p> <ul> <li>milad.mp3 (good behaving)</li> <li>hey you.mp3 (space in filename)</li> <li>systemofadown.mp3 (long filename)</li> <li>howdy(1).mp3 (parentheses in filename)</li> </ul> <p>and any combination of the last three conditions. I want to rename the files to 001-test.mp3, 002-mp3, ... It doesn't matter which file gets which name. have written a batch file to do the rename. Here is my code (with line numbers added):</p> <pre><code>01 rem @echo off 02 cls 03 set _number=%1 04 lfnfor on 05 06 :F1TO10 07 IF NOT EXIST *.mp3. goto end 08 if %_number% gtr 9 goto F10TO100 09 for /f %%a IN ('dir /b *.mp3') do rename %%~na.mp3 00%_number%-test.mp4 10 set /a _number +=1 11 goto F1TO10 12 13 :F10TO100 14 IF NOT EXIST *.mp3. goto end 15 if %_number% gtr 99 goto F100TO1000 16 for /f %%a IN ('dir /b *.mp3') do rename %%~na.mp3 0%_number%-test.mp4 17 set /a _number +=1 18 goto F10TO100 19 20 :F100TO1000 21 IF NOT EXIST *.mp3. goto end 22 if %_number% gtr 999 goto end 23 for /f %%a IN ('dir /b *.mp3') do rename %%~na.mp3 %_number%-test.mp4 24 set /a _number +=1 25 goto F100TO1000 26 27 :end 28 for /f %%a IN ('dir /b *.mp4') do rename %%~na.mp4 %%~na.mp3 29 echo Done </code></pre> <p>This code works fine for good behaving filenames (i.e. no spaces, no parentheses, no longer than 8 chars long). But if I have even a single file with a bad behaving filename, the script breaks (it loops endlessly until I stop it with Ctrl-C).</p> <p>The problem is obviously a filename issue. How can this be fixed? Any ideas? I'd greatly appreciate any help.</p>

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