I have a lot of windows files where the filename contains a %. See below:
c:temp>
dir /b
114902_T%3A%5CAccounting%5CPayables%5CAPA%5CBoshart Apr 25%5CBII_inv_1489879.pdf
114904_T%3A%5CAccounting%5CPayables%5CAPA%5CBoshart Apr 25%5CBII_inv_1489880.pdf
114906_T%3A%5CAccounting%5CPayables%5CAPA%5CBoshart Apr 25%5CBII_inv_1491058.pdf
114916_T%3A%5CAccounting%5CPayables%5CAPA%5CBoshart Apr 25%5CBII_inv_1491059.pdf
114918_T%3A%5CAccounting%5CPayables%5CAPA%5CBoshart Apr 25%5CBII_inv_1491452.pdf
114920_T%3A%5CAccounting%5CPayables%5CAPA%5CBoshart Apr 25%5CBII_inv_1491453.pdf
114923_T%3A%5CAccounting%5CPayables%5CAPA%5CBoshart Apr 25%5CBII_inv_1491454.pdf
115513_T%3A%5CAccounting%5CPayables%5CAPA%5CABB MAY 15%5C0039292647.pdf
115515_T%3A%5CAccounting%5CPayables%5CAPA%5CABB MAY 15%5C0039295860.pdf
115517_T%3A%5CAccounting%5CPayables%5CAPA%5CABB MAY 15%5C0039296218.pdf
115523_T%3A%5CAccounting%5CPayables%5CAPA%5CABB MAY 15%5C0039308592.pdf
115525_T%3A%5CAccounting%5CPayables%5CAPA%5CABB MAY 15%5C0039308593.pdf
120342_T%3A%5CAccounting%5CPayables%5CAPA%5CABB MAY 15%5C0039328905.pdf
120345_T%3A%5CAccounting%5CPayables%5CAPA%5CABB MAY 15%5C0039337204.pdf
120348_T%3A%5CAccounting%5CPayables%5CAPA%5CABB MAY 15%5C0039337221.pdf
120351_T%3A%5CAccounting%5CPayables%5CAPA%5CABB MAY 15%5C0039337461.pdf
120639_T%3A%5CAccounting%5CPayables%5CAPA%5CAFA MAY 15%5CINV#63168731.pdf
120640_T%3A%5CAccounting%5CPayables%5CAPA%5CAFA MAY 15%5CINV#63168988.pdf
120642_T%3A%5CAccounting%5CPayables%5CAPA%5CAFA MAY 15%5CINV#63168993.pdf
120644_T%3A%5CAccounting%5CPayables%5CAPA%5CAFA MAY 15%5CINV#63169027.pdf
These % are actually hex code for a : (%3A) and (%5C). I can’t explain how they got this way when they were copied from another system, but this what I have to work with. For clarity, this is what is looks like with the hex code.
114902_T:AccountingPayablesAPABoshart Apr 25BII_inv_1489879.pdf
What I want to do is to rename the file from this:
114902_T%3A%5CAccounting%5CPayables%5CAPA%5CBoshart Apr 25%5CBII_inv_1489879.pdf
to this:
BII_inv_1489879.pdf
I tried following other rename exmaples to use the % as a delimiter, but what further complicates things is the last delimiter (the pdf filename) isn’t always the 7th token.
Any help would be greatly appricitated.
