No need to make it any more complicated than need be. You only need to add two lines to the existing FOR loop. The variable %%G contains the current filename throughout the entire time the loop runs. As this is the case, you can simply rename it before you do any of the actual processing in the loop, and then rename it back once you are finished processing it. The variable %%G will still have the current filename assigned to it until the loop goes through the next iteration. Take a random group of 10 mp3 files and copy them into their own directory to do a little test. Make a renametest.cmd batch file that contains this, put it in the test directory with the mp3 files and run it. You'll see that as the loop runs each time it renames a single file to temporary.mp3 and then back again. It will execute a dir command and then pause so you can see what all the filenames currently are at each step.
@echo off for %%G in (*.mp3) do ( dir echo About to rename %%G to temporary.mp3. pause ren "%%G" temporary.mp3 dir echo ... echo You should see %%G is now missing from the list, replaced by temporary.mp3. echo About to rename temporary.mp3 back to %%G. pause ren temporary.mp3 "%%G" dir echo You should now see %%G has returned. pause ) And since that works the way it does, you can simply insert this line at the start of your loop: ren "%%G" temporary.mp3 which will rename the current file you're working on. And then before the end of your loop you can insert this line to change the name back to the original one: ren temporary.mp3 "%%G" -- Clayton Macleod If no one comes from the future to stop you from doing it, then how bad of a decision can it really be? _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-user-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".
