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How to Clean the Filenames of Files in a Folder, According to a white List of Chars, Automatically?
Posted: 29 Mar 2023 16:07
by spaceman
Hi all
I have a folder that contains many files,
and I want to clean the filenames of these files from problematic chars,
and only leave chars that I will define in a White List of chars,
for example:
"ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890()-_."
All other chars will be deleted from the filenames..
Can XYplorer can do this automatically on a folder, If I provide the White List of chars?
Thank you
Re: How to Clean the Filenames of Files in a Folder, According to a white List of Chars, Automatically?
Posted: 29 Mar 2023 16:28
by highend
With a script that would loop over all files in that folder, check the names and remove the chars and that one bound to a CEA: Changing locations
It would at least be triggered once you switch to that folder...
Re: How to Clean the Filenames of Files in a Folder, According to a white List of Chars, Automatically?
Posted: 29 Mar 2023 17:57
by admin
If it's just one folder as I understand, CEA is not necessary. Look at scripting command rename k ...
Re: How to Clean the Filenames of Files in a Folder, According to a white List of Chars, Automatically?
Posted: 29 Mar 2023 18:07
by spaceman
Thank you very much regarding rename k.
What is CEA?
The documentation does not mention this term..
The folder has some sub-folders,
so iterating it recursivly would be nice,
but even If not, I can manually execute it on each of the folders myself,
since the total number of folders is not big.
BTW,
when I supply the list of Allowed Chars to rename k,
how do I prevent some chars from being interpreted as a part of the command?
(e.g. ',' for example)
I need the command to understand all the chars as the chars in the Allow List,
and that no char will "break" or ruin the syntax of the line..
Re: How to Clean the Filenames of Files in a Folder, According to a white List of Chars, Automatically?
Posted: 29 Mar 2023 18:16
by admin
Quote them, this gives you a preview before committing the rename:
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rename k, "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890()-_.", p;
Re: How to Clean the Filenames of Files in a Folder, According to a white List of Chars, Automatically?
Posted: 29 Mar 2023 18:22
by spaceman
Thank you so much!
Re: How to Clean the Filenames of Files in a Folder, According to a white List of Chars, Automatically?
Posted: 07 Apr 2023 02:41
by spaceman
Can the rename command perform 2 modes on 1 execution?
For example:
Search and Replace:
And:
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rename k, "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890()-_.", p;
I can do it with 2 commands,
but doing it with 2 commands has 2 problems:
The first (the small problem) is that it will go over all files
twice, in order to rename them,
and the second (the biggerl problem) is that I can't have the preview on the total change that will happen..
I can only have a preview twice, or a preview on the last 1 (
mode k), butout the change in
mode s.
So does the syntax allow tosomehow combine more than 1 mode, into 1 command?
Re: How to Clean the Filenames of Files in a Folder, According to a white List of Chars, Automatically?
Posted: 07 Apr 2023 03:57
by yusef88
I hope this will help you.
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$names = "";
foreach($item, <selitems <crlf>>, <crlf>, "e") {
$str = gpc($item, "file");
$str = regexreplace("$str", "[\[|\]||{|}|;|,\!]", "_");
$str = regexreplace("$str", "[^a-zA-Z0-9\(\)-_\.]", "");
$names .= $str . <crlf>; }
rename "l", $names, p, , 64;
Re: How to Clean the Filenames of Files in a Folder, According to a white List of Chars, Automatically?
Posted: 07 Apr 2023 11:25
by spaceman
Hi Yusef
Thank you very much.
It's nice that you get along well with RegEx,
most people are detered by them..
Re: How to Clean the Filenames of Files in a Folder, According to a white List of Chars, Automatically?
Posted: 07 Apr 2023 13:02
by yusef88
actually, I'm not experienced in regex. the script belongs to highend.
viewtopic.php?p=193995#p193995
I post it as example how to do rename in one go (regex maybe inaccurate)
Re: How to Clean the Filenames of Files in a Folder, According to a white List of Chars, Automatically?
Posted: 07 Apr 2023 13:14
by spaceman
Oh
Still, most people (inc. me) are deterred from RegEx.
You seem to not be.