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Oh, this. It's for printing.

The printer recognizes three or more "-" symbols as the connector, and the number after that is the number of copies to print.
For example: a---3.txt means print this file in 3 copies.

Some people say: "Why make it so troublesome? Just click print three copies directly."
Yeah, that's fine if there's only one, but if there are many it won't do, so I have to process the documents first, then drag them into the corresponding folder. For example, if I want three copies, I put them into the folder for printing three copies. (And some documents might need two copies today, but four tomorrow, so changing them back and forth is really troublesome.) If I had to rename them one by one, wouldn't that be exhausting? So I came here to ask for help, but the answers I got were not very satisfying, so I started writing it myself, learning and improving as I went. Yesterday I finally wrote one that's not bad, hehe.

I see you're also very active on the forum, let's be friends. I've already added you ^_^

The second FOR doesn't need DIR anymore
@echo off
for /f "tokens=*" %%i in ('dir /b /a-d *.txt') do call :lp "%%~ni"
pause
goto :eof
:lp
set n=
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
for /f "tokens=1* delims=-" %%i in ("%~1") do (
set fils=%%i
set fils1=!fils!---3.txt
if "%~1.txt" == "!fils1!" goto :eof
if exist "!fils1!" (
:rn
set /a n+=1
set fils1=!fils!!n!---3.txt
if exist "!fils1!" goto rn
)
)
ren "%~1.txt" "!fils1!"

[ Last edited by terse on 2008-2-13 at 12:54 PM ]

Awesome, much simpler than mine. Thanks.

I like your signature; looks like I should write one too.