Rename files on disk with t-sql

Question

I am using T-SQL

I have a few excel files located here: C:\\MyFiles\\

I want to remove all the apostrophes in the file names in that directory.<

Answer 1

First you need to enable xp_cmdshell

EXEC sp_configure 'show advanced options', 1
GO
RECONFIGURE
GO
EXEC sp_configure 'xp_cmdshell', 1
GO
RECONFIGURE
GO

Then you can use sp_cmdshell to retrieve the files names from the directory

Declare @Directory TABLE (Files Varchar(MAX))
Declare @File TABLE (Name varchar(MAX))
INSERT INTO @Directory
EXEC XP_CMDSHELL 'DIR "D:"'
Insert into @File
Select reverse(LEFT(reverse(Files),charindex(' ' ,reverse(Files)))) from @Directory
Select * from  @FILE

Now you get the file names in the table variable @FILE and use function like replace or your own custom function to replace apostrophes with the exact filename