ren (更改文件和目录的名称)

Renames a file/directory or files/directories.

RENAME [drive:][path][directoryname1 | file name 1] [directory name 2 | file name 2]
REN [drive:][path][directoryname1 | file name 1] [directory name 2 | file name 2]

rename c:\computer hope

Change the name of the directory "computer" to "hope."

rename *.txt *.bak

Rename all text files with the ".txt" file extension to files with ".bak" extension.

When renaming files using an asterisk (*) keep in mind that you can rename all files in a directory. If there are file in the current directory you do not want renamed be sure to make your rename less greedy by adding a file extension.

rename * 1_*

Rename all files to begin with 1_. The asterisk (*) in the command above is an example of a wild character and can represent one or more characters. With only an asterisk, all file names in the current directoryare renamed to have "1_" as the first two characters.

To represent or match one single character only, use the question mark (?) character instead.

This command doesn't append or add text to the front of the file name; it replaces the first two characters of every file in the current directory. For example, if there was a file were named hope.txt, it would be renamed to 1_pe.txt.

rename "computer hope.txt" "example file.txt"

Rename the file "computer hope.txt" to "example file.txt". When you are dealing with a file or directory with a space, it must be surrounded byquotes. Otherwise, you'll get an error indicating that Getting "The syntax of the command is incorrect." error."

Getting "The syntax of the command is incorrect." error

In the Windows command line, when trying to copy, move, or rename a file or directory with a space you may get the "The syntax of the command is incorrect." error message. This error message is generated when the Windows command line does not understand the syntax of the command because it is not formatted properly. To resolve this issue, surround any file name or directory name with spaces in it with quotes.

For example, if we had a directory or file name called "computer hope" you would enter the following commands.

In this first example, we're copying the file "computer hope.txt" into the hope directory. Without the quotes around the file, you get "The syntax of the command is incorrect." error message.

copy "computer hope.txt" hope

Next, the following command would move the file "computer hope.txt" into the hope directory. Again, without quotes you get the error message.

move "computer hope.txt" hope

Finally, the following command would rename the same file to example file.txt, which also has a space in the file name.

rename "computer hope.txt" "example file.txt"