# Renaming a Windows directory

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/renaming-a-windows-directory/20805>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** windows\
**Created:** [March 8, 2016, 4:14pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/renaming-a-windows-directory/20805 "2016-03-08T16:14:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![dyioulos](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/dyioulos/32/8363_2.png) [@dyioulos](https://forum.ansible.com/u/dyioulos)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2016, 4:14pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/renaming-a-windows-directory/20805/1 "2016-03-08T16:14:23Z")

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I need to preserve a Windows directory as “directory.bak”. I was hoping this might work, but it doesn’t:

- raw: c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe rename C:\directory C:\directory.bak

Is there a way to accomplish what I’m looking to do?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![dyioulos](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/dyioulos/32/8363_2.png) [@dyioulos](https://forum.ansible.com/u/dyioulos)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2016, 4:23pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/renaming-a-windows-directory/20805/2 "2016-03-08T16:23:32Z")

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I found the solution:

- raw: c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe /C rename C:\testdir testdir.bak