Append folder name and increment by 1 using batch script

Question

I am a little green to this part of batch scripting, but what I am trying to do is a append a bunch of folder names and increment by 1 whilst respecting the time stamp i.e newest folder first, oldest folder last.

I have looked at other scripts with no avail.

Before

Folder 1
Folder 2
Folder 3
Folder 4
Folder 5
Folder 6

After

Folder 1 - Part 001          - Time stamp 1/1/2014 - 18:55:20
Folder 4 - Part 002          - Time stamp 1/1/2014 - 18:55:24
Folder 3 - Part 003          - Time stamp 1/1/2014 - 18:56:28
Folder 6 - Part 004          - Time stamp 1/1/2014 - 18:58:24
Folder 5 - Part 005          - Time stamp 1/1/2014 - 18:59:20
Folder 43 - Part 006          - Time stamp 1/1/2014 - 18:59:59

Extra function

Is there a way to do all the above but skip all folders that contain - GROUP VIDEO at the end of it. (I am not sure if I should create a new post or not?)

Do your folders sort by name correctly, or are your examples nothing like the real thing? — foxidrive, Jul 16 '14 at 16:53
@etr - I do not not have any code as such as I could not find anything that would work remotely to what I wanted. — Arthor, Jul 16 '14 at 16:55
@foxidrive The folder will be of different names however the time stamp will be correct, updated post to reflect that. — Arthor, Jul 16 '14 at 16:55

foxidrive · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-19T05:14:53.160

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Test this:

@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
set num=0
for /f "delims=" %%a in ('dir /b /ad /o-d ^|find /i /v "GROUP VIDEO" ') do (
set /a num+=1
set name=000!num!
set name=!name:~-3!
ren "%%a" "%%a - Part !name!"
)
pause

edited Jul 19 '14 at 05:14

answered Jul 16 '14 at 17:00

foxidrive

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Wow, that was quick! Testing now. Thank you – Arthor Jul 16 '14 at 17:04
If I wanted specify the folder location where to do the operations, would it be `cd\` then `cd c:\test\test`. Tried it but no joy. Thanks – Arthor Jul 16 '14 at 17:21
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After line 3 add `cd /d "c:\test\test"` – foxidrive Jul 17 '14 at 01:23
Is there a way to get the above code to skip any folder containing the phrase `GROUP VIDEO`. Thank you, PS. If you want me to create a new thread please let me know. – Arthor Jul 18 '14 at 19:06
Just out of curiosity, would this be correct `('dir /b /ad /o-d ^|find /i /v "GROUP VIDEO" ^|find /i /v "GROUP AUDIO" ')` To have multiple expressions? – Arthor Jul 19 '14 at 19:13
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Yes. You could use just one expression too in your case to filter them both on one pass. This would be faster but for a small number of folders you couldn't tell. `^|find /i /v " - GROUP"` NOTE too that the `- GROUP` is case insensitive with the `/i` switch. – foxidrive Jul 19 '14 at 19:29
Ok, so this would be correct? `('dir /b /ad /o-d ^|find /i /v "GROUP VIDEO" ^|find /i /v "SERVER STATS" ')` – Arthor Jul 19 '14 at 19:37

Append folder name and increment by 1 using batch script

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