Hi, I tried looking for my answer here and many other forums and although some were close, it didn't completely do it for me so I planned to post it.
I have a bunch of files in a folder(say C:\Test) and they need to be renamed in a standardized format-

The files shown below-
ChargeOptimisation_january2011.csv 20110101_Bill_inventory.csv Account_20110101_Summary.csv
needs to be renamed to -
ChargeOptimisation.csv Bill_inventory.csv Account_Summary.csv

I need to use keywords like 'ChargeOptimisation','Bill_inventory' as the other characters may be random. Can someone please help me with using regular expressions / rename command to solve this problem.

Thanks, Rohan.

In reply to Renaming files based on keywords by rohanan

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