Current Events > Is there a way to mass edit file names to start with [CV] [RW] ect?

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Long story short I'm transferring a lot of pictures over for a pro wrestling simulator and I want to order them. Right now I have Real World pictures [Hulk Hogan, Steve Austin, Chris Jericho, ect] and I have the C-Verse pictures [Bart Biggins, Cerberus, Jade Lizard], but in two different picture folders, and you can only use one at a time. So I can just copy and past into one folder.

But I want to keep them separated. If I just copy and past them into the folder fight now the list is going to look like -

Bart Biggins
Cerberus
Chris Jericho
Hulk Hugan
Jay Lizard
Steve Austin

But I want it to look like this -

[CV] Bart Biggins
[CV] Cerberus
[CV] Jay Lizard
[RW] Chris Jericho
[RW] Hulk Hogan
[RW] Steven Austin

Because there are 1,000s of pictures, lol. So can I mass edit all the files in the CV Folder to start with [CV] and then mass edit all the files in the Real World Folder to start with [RW] and so on with other picture folders? Then I can have one huge picture folder that has all of the picture folders in it

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Google "Rename Master". Yes, it supports RegEx if you need that. EDIT: Yes, it's free.

Tag me if you need help with it, not necesserially going to see replies here otherwise.

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Powershell can do this easily

otherwise Im sure theres plenty of free tools on the internet that can do this as well

Okay, thanks. I'll take a look

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Get-childitem path\to\files | rename-item -newname {$_.BaseName.insert(0,[CV] ) + $_.Extension} -WhatIf

that wont actually rename files, just use it to see if it will do exactly what you want. If you are happy, remove the -whatif

I'm not going to lie, I'm really confused by all of that, tbh

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Basically get-childitem gets all children of something, so in this case we give it a folder and it gives you all the files in the folder.

then for each file, we rename it to be whatever its currently name, plus [CV] inserted right at the front (0th position), and we retain the file extension (.jpg or whatever) as well. -whatif puts it into testing mode and it doesnt actually make any changes, it just shows you what changes it would have made if you take out -whatif