Nauman Yousuf's Blog: vbscript

Wednesday, 31 May 2017

VBScript to rename file

There are many VBScript to rename file available online. This script is a simple version that will rename file in a directory removing a specific sub string from a filename

Example if you have filename e.g

001_US.txt
002_US.txt
003_US.txt

Desired output is (with _US removed)

001.txt
002.txt
003.txt

Change Line 13 to your directory containing the files
and
Change Sub String in Line 26

Code Snippet

1:    
2:  ' -------------------------------------------------------'  
3:  ' VBScript to Rename files, remove the last specfic sub string file a filename  
4:  ' example if file names are like 001_US, 002_US, 003_US the sub string "_US" can be removed using this script  
5:  ' NOTE: Its always good to have a backup before hand.  
6:  ' Date : 31 May 2017  
7:  ' Author : Muhammad Nauman Yousuf (nauman_yousuf@yahoo.com)  
8:  ' -------------------------------------------------------'  
9:    
10:    
11:  ' Variable declaration and initialization   
12:   Dim oFS : Set oFS = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")  
13:   Dim sDir : sDir   = "c:\temp\one"  
14:   Dim oFile  
15:    
16:     
17:   'List the orignal Files  
18:   WScript.Echo " --- Orgnal File Directory --- "  
19:   For Each oFile In oFS.GetFolder(sDir).Files  
20:     WScript.Echo oFile.Path  
21:   Next  
22:     
23:   WScript.Echo "----- Rename Operation Started:"  
24:     
25:   For Each oFile In oFS.GetFolder(sDir).Files  
26:            oFile.Name = Replace(oFile.Name, "_US", "")  
27:            WScript.Echo "Renamed : " & oFile.Name  
28:   Next  
29:   WScript.Echo "----- Rename Operation Completed:"  
30:         
31:    
32:   'List the orignal Files  
33:   WScript.Echo " --- Final Directory List --- "  
34:   For Each oFile In oFS.GetFolder(sDir).Files  
35:     WScript.Echo oFile.Path  
36:   Next

Sample Run