change-extention-ignore

README.md

change-extention-ignore

Usage

change-extention-ignore.bat <directory> <target> <new-extention> [<ignored-files>]

To ignore more than one file specify the filenames separated by /.

Example

We want to change files' extention in ./Test/ from .txt to .bat, but preserve extention of test-ignore.txt.

Directory tree

├───Test
│       test-ignore.txt
│       test1.txt
│       test2.txt
│       test3.txt

Command arguments

> change-extention-ignore.bat Test *.txt .bat test-ignore.txt
test1.txt renamed to test1.bat
test2.txt renamed to test2.bat
test3.txt renamed to test3.bat
```

change-extention-ignore.bat

@echo off
rem Based on code from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20670858/how-to-delete-all-files-in-a-folder-except-5-files
cd %1
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
for %%a in (%2) do (
    if NOT "!exclude:/%%~a/" == "/%4/" (
      echo %%~a renamed to %%~na%3
      ren "%%~a" "%%~na%3"
   )
)
endlocal
cd ..