Copy to Dest - renaming with Regular Expression

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I have this regular expression that removes 5 chars from the whole file name

Rename TYPE=files REGEXP PATTERN "(.+).(.*)#5" TO "\1\2" AUTORENAME

I am looking for a way to combine this with the Copy command, so that the effect of the button will be to copy all selected files (with 5 chars removed) to the destination lister.

Thanks in advance.

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I don't think there is a good way to do this unless the task can be done using simple * wildcards.

(In this case I think that'd require the 5 chars you want to remove from the end to be known in advance. Or there could be multiple 5 char extensions to remove, but you'd have to have a list of them known in advance.)

This is because the Copy/Move command can rename files using simple wildcards but doesn't support regular expressions or any of the more complex features of the Rename command.

3

If you just add a Copy command to the button following the Rename command it should work fine.

4

Ok. How about a way to copy a file to dest, then run a RENAME command on the new copy?

leo: I do know the chars in advance They are always ".part".

jon: That won't work, because the files I want to preform this function on are being written to when I copy them.

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In that case it's very easy:

Copy *.part AS *

If it's not something you're going to do a lot then you don't need to create a custom button to do it, either. Just right-click the Copy button on the default toolbar and type *.part as the old name and * as the new name:

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[quote]
Ok. How about a way to copy a file to dest, then run a RENAME command on the new copy? [/quote]
Anyone know a way to do this?

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Something like this might get you started on doing that.

Copy Select SOURCETODEST dopusrt /cmd Set STATE=Dest FOCUS=Toggle dopusrt /cmd Rename FROM * TO "New Name *" AUTORENAME

The above example button code only prepends "New Name" to the original file names that are copied which is essentially worthless as a practical renaming example. So you'd need to modify the last line to rename the destination files as you wish. I'm also assuming you wouldn't have anything selected in the destination lister beforehand. If it's possible you might have destination files preselected, then you'd want to add more commands to deselect destination files before copying.