renamiing multiple files

[Bushmills1]

I have about 1000 .bmp files that all have the prefix 'Copy of' in front of them.
What is the DOS command line to rename them deleting only the 'Copy of' element?
Hope you can help

[kv79]

Post this message to a programing  language C forum . That would be easy for them .

[Dias de verano]

It's a batch problem pure and simple. Is the part after 'copy of' unique in each case?

[ghostdog74]

provided you only have all "copy of" files and not their originals, here's a vbscript

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Set objFSO= CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set colFolders = objFSO.GetFolder("C:\test")

For Each oFile In colFolders.Files   
    If InStr(1,oFile.Name,"Copy of",1) > 0 Then
    newName = Replace(oFile.Name, "Copy of ","")
    oFile.Name= newName
    WScript.Echo oFile.Name
    End If
Next