while adding prefix to specif files using batch file it adds prefix two time for first file because of bracket '[]'

Question

i'm trying to add prefix to all files in cur dir and sub dir and i'm succeed in this using following code:

@echo off
pushd "D:\z.Temp\Test\"
for /r %%j in (*) do (
   rename "%%j" "[nilesh.uk.to]-%%~nxj"
)
popd

But When I Try To Add Prefix For Perticular File Types Such As:

@echo off
pushd "D:\z.Temp\Test\"
for /r %%j in (*.html *.js) do (
   rename "%%j" "[nilesh.uk.to]-%%~nxj"
)
popd

the it works but it gives me output such as:

demo1.html  -->  [nilesh.uk.to]-[nilesh.uk.to]-demo1.html
demo2.html  -->  [nilesh.uk.to]-demo2.html
demo3.html  -->  [nilesh.uk.to]-demo3.html

demo1.js  -->  [nilesh.uk.to]-[nilesh.uk.to]-demo1.js
demo2.js  -->  [nilesh.uk.to]-demo2.js
demo3.js  -->  [nilesh.uk.to]-demo3.js

Here Each first file adding prefix two time

And If I Remove [] from nilesh.uk.to then it works perfectly but i want prefix as [nilesh.uk.to] please frendz tell me what to do....

Answer 1

The problem is, that the renamed files can be found and renamed a second time.

Add an ECHO rename "%%j" "[nilesh.uk.to]-%%~nxj" to your code and you will see something like

rename "C:\temp\bracket\demo1.txt" "[nilesh.uk.to]-demo1.txt" rename "C:\temp\bracket\demo2.txt" "[nilesh.uk.to]-demo2.txt" rename "C:\temp\bracket\demo3.txt" "[nilesh.uk.to]-demo3.txt" rename "C:\temp\bracket[nilesh.uk.to]-demo1.txt" "[nilesh.uk.to]-[nilesh.uk.to]-demo1.txt"

So you need to force the FOR loop to take each file only once.

You could change it to

for /F "delims=" %%j in ('dir /s /b *.html') do (
....

This works, as the dir /s /b *.html will be completly executed before the first rename command will be executed.

Answer 2

I don't know but I will take a guess. I have some reason to believe it's a good guess. Remove the brackets (the ()) brackets and put commands on one line.

If you do that and the script still doesn't work I'll look at it closely.