Create REN Batch File?

Ron Ball

How can I automatically convert a list of filenames (in a text file) to reverse the filename based on a dash?

My file has (hundreds) of filenames listed … (I can easily remove the .epub extension before conversion, and add it back after the list is “fixed”.)

This would be the starting file contents …

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

This would be the converted file contents …

REN "Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen" "Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice"
REN "Moby Dick - Herman Melville" "Herman Melville - Moby Dick"
REN "A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens" "Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities"

Ekopalypse

@Ron-Ball said in Create REN Batch File?:

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

From the given example you would build three groups like
find:(.+)( - )(.+)
and
replace: REN "$1$2$3" "$3$2$1"

Hopefully your data is exactly as posted.

guy038

Hello, @ron-ball and All,

Really easy with regular expressions !

So , assuming a simple list of filenames, with any extension, like below :

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen.epub
Moby Dick - Herman Melville.epub
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens.epub

Open the Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H )
SEARCH (?-s)^(.+)(\x20-\x20)(.+)(\..+)
REPLACE ren "$0" "\3\2\1\4"
Tick the Wrap around option
Select the Regular expression search mode
Click, once, on the Replace all button

You should get the expected result :

ren "Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen.epub" "Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice.epub"
ren "Moby Dick - Herman Melville.epub" "Herman Melville - Moby Dick.epub"
ren "A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens.epub" "Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities.epub"

Voila ;-))

Best Regards,

guy038

Ron Ball

@guy038 This is awesome! Thank you so much! It worked perfectly.