Renaming parent based on the file

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1

Is this possible? It’s the opposite of renaming the file based on the parent.

It’s renaming the parent based on the file.

Imagine you are inside a directory. You select a file inside it and want the parent to be renamed to this selected file.

2

Do you mean something like

Rename REGEXP PATTERN "(.)(..)" to "\1\\0"

?

3

You have to modify this a bit, since it only puts the file into a folder of the same name instead of renaming the parent folder.

4

This will rename the parent folder to the same name as the selected file/folder (excluding file extension):

@firstfileonly Rename {filepath$|..|noterm} TO {file$|noext}

5

Thank you very much. Works perfectly. Makes life so much easier!

6

Great button! Is there anyway to change the code to get the opposite result, i.e. rename the selected file/folder with the same name as the parent folder. I tried switching the two bracketed commands but it gave me an error. Any ideas?

7

Try this code:

Rename to="{parent}.{ext}" FILEINFO
8

That is awesome! Thanks so much :smiley: