Need help with renaming (1234)

I have multiple files c.b.a, d.b.a, e.b.a, etc. How can I rename them and remove the .b part of the name? So the file names become c.a, d.a, e.a? Notionally, I want to mv *.b.a *.a, but that does not work as the * matches the fullname and I get c.b.a.a, d.b.a.a, e.b.a.a. Is there a way to do this with wildcard? If not, how can I do this, from the dopus gui, with regular expressions? (I say gui because I do not know how to use dopus scripting commands.)

Thanks for your help!
Phil

Yes, that's the right tool. Try

Parameters for the Advanced Renamer
Mode: Regular Expressions
Old name: (.*)\.(.*)\.(.*)
New name: \1.\3
Ignore extension: checked

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Thank you - I appreciate your quick and helpful response!!!

By the way, the web page would not let me post with just a simple title of "Need help with renaming" because another post had that name. I had tried two other straightforward names and they were duplicates too. So, I simply appended (1234) to make my title unique. So that I am better citizen of this forum, what title should I have used for this question?

It's almost in your first sentence:

"Renaming files by removing parts of the file name"

or

"Removing parts of the file name"

Asking for help is the core idea of the forum, so there is no need to state that in the title :slight_smile: