help with a bat file

[xfusion]

i work at a tv station and everyday we download a most of our shows for the next day from a program called pathfire, now everything we get is named ending with _std and  comes with multiple .mpg's and .idx files, now this is great and all but things we get from warner brothers come with files with no extension and .idx files, so i currently have a bat file that when run in a folder will rename all the files with no extension .mpg's

ren *_std *_std.mpg

now each of our shows are in different folders in a main folder for that day, now all this information is basically useless because my main question is how can i get my bat file, to go through each folder in the folder it is run in and run this command in each, so instead of copying it 6 times in each of the show folders and running it, i can just run it once in the main folder and it will go through every folder there and rename things

hope this isent to confusing

[jessedz]

I dont know if you are familiar with de CD command, but if you type:
CD\
you will go to the uppest folder (C:) . if you type
CD example
you will go to C:\example  (if it excist...)
you can create a .bat file like this:

cd\
cd example
cd folder 1
ren *_std   *.std.mpg
cd\
cd example
cd folder 2
ren *_std   *.std.mpg
cd\
cd example
cd folder 3
ren *_std   *.std.mpg
cd\
cd example
cd folder 4
ren *_std   *.std.mpg

i know my english is bad... i hope its clear now

[wbrost]

ok give this a try and let me know if you are still having issues with it.

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@ECHO OFF
CLS

REM THIS WILL SCAN THE CURRENT FOLDER AND RETURN SUB-FOLDERS TO A TEXT FILE
CD %CD%
DIR /B *.>"%TEMP%\DIRTEST.TXT"

REM USE DIRTEST.TXT IN A FOR LOOP
FOR /f "delims==" %%A in (C:\DOCUME~1\%USERNAME%\LOCALS~1\Temp\DIRTEST.TXT) DO SET A=%%A& CALL :DIR %%A


IF EXIST "%TEMP%\DIRTEST.TXT" DEL "%TEMP%\DIRTEST.TXT"
ECHO JOB COMPLETE.....
GOTO END

:DIR

ECHO WORKING ON FOLDER %A%
CD\
CD %A%
REN *_std *_std.mpg


:END