Shell command for renaming a file or directory
ren / rename Developer(s) Various open-source and commercial developers Operating system OpenVOS , RT-11 , OS/8 , RSX-11 , ISIS-II , iRMX 86 , TOPS-20 , Z80-RIO , FLEX , CDOS , OS-9 , FlexOS , PC-MOS , 4690 OS , MPE/iX , THEOS/OASIS , OpenVMS , CP/M , MP/M , TRIPOS , AmigaDOS , DOS , MSX-DOS , SISNE plus , OS/2 , Windows , ReactOS , SymbOS , DexOSPlatform Cross-platform Type Command
renrenameshell command for renaming a file and in some implementations (such as AmigaDOS [ 1] directory .
Some shells with ren also provide a move move command (such as MS-DOS older than 6.00), the user could copy a file to a new destination and then delete the original file. In DOSBox , ren can move files.
Description of the RENAME command of RT-11SJ displayed on a VT100 . The command is in various shells such as COMMAND.COM , Command Prompt ,[ 2] 4DOS , 4NT and PowerShell . In MS-DOS , the command is available in versions 1 and later.[ 3] PowerShell , ren is a predefined alias for the Rename-Item Cmdlet which serves the same essential purpose.[ 4]
Similar commands are available in many operating systems . The command is available in the CP/M ,[ 5] MP/M ,[ 6] [ 7] Cromemco DOS ,[ 8] TRIPOS ,[ 9] OS/2 ,[ 10] ReactOS ,[ 11] SymbOS , and DexOS. Multics includes a rename command to rename a directory entry; which could be contracted to rn.[ 12] rename command which in some cases can be contracted to ren is provided in Stratus VOS ,[ 13] RT-11 ,[ 14] OS/8 ,[ 15] RSX-11 ,[ 16] ISIS-II ,[ 17] iRMX 86 ,[ 18] TOPS-20 ,[ 19] Z80-RIO ,[ 20] FLEX ,[ 21] OS-9 ,[ 22] FlexOS ,[ 23] 4690 OS ,[ 24] MPE/iX ,[ 25] THEOS/OASIS ,[ 26] OpenVMS [ 27] rename command is supported by 86-DOS .[ 28] DR DOS 6.0 includes ren and rename commands.[ 29] PC-MOS includes an implementation of rename.[ 30] [ 31] emulator DOSBox .
The following renames file foo to bar.
The following renames a file specified by a fully qualified path. The first parameter may contain drive and path information, but the second parameter must be only a file name.
> rename "C:\Users\Public\Videos\Sample Videos\Wildlife.wmv" Wildlife2.wmv
The following removes abcd of a file name in Command Prompt based on the following rules:
Same number of / as the number of characters to remove
Requries double quotes for both arguments
Won't remove . > rename "abcd*.txt" "////*.txt"
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