Renaming Windows directory using Stata syntax?

[Klaus Steitzel]

Dear Statalist

Is there a way to rename directories on my Windows PC from within Stata? I found how to rename files and how to erase files and how to make directories, but is there no command that lets me rename an existing directory. I'm using Stata 13 and Windows 10.

Thank you very much for your consideration
K

[daniel klein]

Here is how you want to rename c:\foo to c:\bar

!ren c:\foo bar

Note that Windows insists on the backslash (which is best not be used otherwise).

Best
Daniel

[Klaus Steitzel]

Great, thanks!

Somehow this doesn't work for me, because my situation is more like

cd "C:\Dropbox\Super\complicated\path\"
!ren foo bar

and in that situation, "!ren foo bar" doesn't do anything. Is there a way around that?

Thank you
K

[Sergiy Radyakin]

instead of the command that "doesn't do anything" put a command shell. This will shell out to the command line. There manually type ren foo bar and see what the error message will be. Let us know.

[Klaus Steitzel]

Thank you very much, Sergiy, that's the information I needed. I found out that "doesn't do anything" was because of "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process." and after ending that process, Daniel's solution works.

All the best
Klaus Steitzel