Custom name column to remove middle of filename?

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I’d like to know if there is a way to create a custom name column that removes a number of characters from the middle the file names.

2

One of the Regular Expressions column scripts will let you do that.

e.g. This one has a nice UI for setting up the columns:

This one has a long tutorial written about it:

A third option (may also have a config UI; I'm not sure):

3

Thanks. These look promising. I was hoping to preserve the ICON - it looks like these are great solutions for re-purposing the text of existing columns, which is very cool. I was hoping to apply a regex to the built in Name column to remove some number of middle characters. Thanks for pointing me in this direction.

4

The actual name column can't be changed, other than optionally removing the file extension from it.

(At least without writing a VFS Plugin, which would be very complicated.)