Rename A Lot of Files

Hello, can anyone tell me how to rename a lot of files? I have a problem because my files name have a type like this (YR.ME01..HHZ.D.2013.280.000000.SAC), but I need it to be like this (2013.280.00.00.00.000.YR.ME01.BHZ.SAC). Thank you for your help.

Answer 1

[Adam]

movefile('source','destination')

doc movefile

works for renaming a file. If it is in the current folder you can just put old and new filenames, otherwise you also have to add the path.

To rename a lot of files just do it in a loop. It depends where you are getting the names from how best to do that though. If it is all files in a folder you can use

doc dir

and query its results for filenames of the required format then write a function that takes an old name and converts it to a new name, then call it on all your files, using movefile as above to save each one.

[Stephen23]

This will help too:

http://de.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/57446-faq-how-can-i-process-a-sequence-of-files