Tandy 1000 MS-DOS Reference Manual page 168

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RENAME
REN[AME]
pathname filename
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Changes the name of the file specified by pathname to filename.
Parameters
pathname is the file to be renamed.
filename is the new name for the file.
Notes and Suggestions
• If you include a wild card in the filename, MS-DOS leaves the
corresponding characters as they were. For example, if you
type the following:
ren newfile old????
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MS-DOS replaces the ? wild cards with the characters that
occupied the same position in the original name. Newfile is
changed to .oldfile.
• If you also include a wild card in the pathname, MS-DOS
renames all files in the specified directory that match the
pathname. For example, if you type the following:
RENAME
*.19t *.prn
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MS-DOS changes only the extension of all .lst files that are in
the current directory. The new extension is .prn. The file Sue-
file.lst, for example, becomes Suefile.prn.
Examples
r en b: \ u
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e r \ 9 11 . da t 9 12 . da t
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changes the name of the Gll.dat file that is in B: \ USER to
g12.dat.
ren b:mufile ?y????
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changes the name of Mufile, a file in the current directory in
Drive B, to Myfile.
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