Tuesday, July 11, 2006

"Regular Expression File Renaming Utility"

INauseous() - Regular Expression File Renaming Utility

"There have been numerous times that I’ve needed the ability to rename a set of files based upon a pattern, something regular expressions could easily take care of if the old DOS rename command, or something built into the Windows OS could do. However, there’s nothing in Windows base set of command utilities that can provide this. I haven’t delved into Windows PowerShell (fka Monad) enough to see if this capability exists already. But, I had a bunch of pictures that I wanted renamed in my library and just needed a utility to do it.

So, I built this utility to help me rename files, by directory, based upon Regular Expression patterns.
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This looks like a pretty cool utility (with C# source) that might just come in handy...

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I like an app called Flexible Renamer. It hasn't been updated for awhile, and it's hosted on a Japanese site, but it's really nice. Based on the URL, I'm not sure if HP has any involvement, or what, but it works nicely. Link: http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA014830/english/FlexRena.

Greg said...

Great tip...

Thanks!

Anonymous said...

Have you tried PowerShell? ;)

Greg said...

I'm waiting on PS to go RTM before I REALLY look at it. I'm just reaching the beta burnout stage...

(... there I was spending a bit of time with the WinFS CTP's and beta... dogh! ;)

I don't fault MS at all with their recent CTP/beta roll-out schedule, it's just that my brain is full.

I AM excited about PS and am really looking forward to its RTM...

Anonymous said...

Have you tried Quick File Rename? You can rename files from DOS, tag mp3s, rename exif and so much more. It also supports regular expressions.