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ren doesn't work for parent folder in BATCH programming

set FILENAME1=name1.ini
set FILENAME2=name2.ini
ren %FILENAME1% %FILENAME2%

This works

But

set FILENAME1=../name1.ini
set FILENAME2=../name2.ini
ren %FILENAME1% %FILENAME2%

This doesn't work.

As you can see I simply want to rename something in my parent folder, it says The syntax of the command is incorrect. Help! Thank you :)

Solution

  • Solution:

    set FILENAME1=name1.ini 
set FILENAME2=name2.ini
ren ../%FILENAME1% %FILENAME2%

    The name you renamed into do not need the parent directory "../"