I need help with setattr meta

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Hello,
I have a collection of ebooks in pdf format.
I want to use file names to include some metadata files (Author, title)

File names are generally:
- . pdf gold - <collection (book part 1, part2 etc..) - . pdf

Example
Frank Herbert - Frank Herbert Dune.pdf gold - Dune part 1 - Dune.pdf

I made ​​several attempts and used several solutions posted in the forum without success.

Could you help me do that

I think the approach is to use meta setattr I do not know the exact syntax, or joint commands.

Thank you in advance

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The syntax is:

SETATTR META author:Herbert,Frank title:Dune
3

Thank you for this info

I'm looking especially how to collect the information from the filename certainly via a regular expression to fill in of metadata records
The goal is to tag several files from the information contained in their names

4

If you know a bit of VBScript or Javascript (etc.) you could do it via rename scripting.

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Unfortunately this is not the case I know nothing about vbscript or javacript :blush:
There may be a solution using the same regular expressions as inside the rename function.
But instead using the original filename structure for renaming, use it to collect and insert metadata

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Problem is only the Rename function currently lets you apply regexps to filenames and use the results (which is why I keep abusing it to do other things :slight_smile: but the you need to use vbscript or similar to do them :frowning: ).

(Not quite true: The command for copying filenames/paths to the clipboard can also apply regexps, but that's probably not useful here. Though, I guess, you could put bits of the filename into the clipboard, then use {clip} in the command, but making it work with multiple fields and multiple files would be quite painful.)