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Posted: **23 May 2026 15:19**

Hello everyone.

I'm wondering if anyone could please help me automate the tasks I'm currently performing manually, as listed below.

I also want that, within a directory with multiple subdirectories, when I select the parent directory and run the script, these tasks will be performed for each subdirectory.

In a subdirectory:

Select all files that do not end with the character “_a” (excluding double quotes).
Copy those files and paste them into the same directory 30 times.

Select all files that end with the character “_a”.
Copy those files and paste them 3 times into the same directory.

Select all files that end with the character “_a - Copy.”.

Change those characters to “ - Copy (5)_a”

Select all files that end with the character “_a - Copy (2)”.

Change those characters to “ - Copy (10)_a”

Select all files with the characters “_a - Copy (3)” at the end.

Change those characters to “ - Copy (20)_a”

Select all files without the characters “ - Copy” at the end.

Change those characters to “ - Copy (1)”.

Select all files with the characters “ - Copy” at the end.

Change those characters to “ - Copy (0)”.

Select all files with the characters “_a - Copy (1)” at the end.

Change those characters to “ - Copy (30)_a”

Find and replace the characters at the end of the file name (0)...(9) with (00)...(09)

Find and replace the characters “Copy ” with “ ” .

Posted: **24 May 2026 08:35**

And now try it with a real world example...

In a folder named "tst1" you have these two files:

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hello_a.txt
world.txt

Show the FULL content of the folder (including ALL files) after the renaming process is done!

Posted: **24 May 2026 10:58**

Thank you for your reply. My files are all in pairs with the same name, one file with and one file without the _a character at the end, and they are both mp3 files:
hello.mp3
hello_a.mp3

My goal is:
- Duplicate the hello.mp3 file 30 times
- Duplicate the hello_a.mp3 file 3 times
- Arrange the files with the _a character at the end into the positions shown in the list
The final result will be as follows:
hello - (00).mp3
hello - (01).mp3
hello - (02).mp3
hello - (03).mp3
hello - (04).mp3
hello - (05).mp3
hello - (05)_a.mp3
hello - (06).mp3
hello - (07).mp3
hello - (08).mp3
hello - (09).mp3
hello - (10).mp3
hello - (10)_a.mp3
hello - (11).mp3
hello - (12).mp3
hello - (13).mp3
hello - (14).mp3
hello - (15).mp3
hello - (16).mp3
hello - (17).mp3
hello - (18).mp3
hello - (19).mp3
hello - (20).mp3
hello - (20)_a.mp3
hello - (21).mp3
hello - (22).mp3
hello - (23).mp3
hello - (24).mp3
hello - (25).mp3
hello - (26).mp3
hello - (27).mp3
hello - (28).mp3
hello - (29).mp3
hello - (30).mp3
hello - (30)_a.mp3

Posted: **24 May 2026 11:27**

Let's say your root folder is:
D:\Music

And it has all direct subfolders like
a
b
c
...

And these subfolders contain your file pairs

then navigate to D:\
and select the "Music" folder and THEN execute the script...

Use it on some test data first!

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    // Run over all (sub-)directories
    $sel = <curitem>;
    end (exists($sel) != 2), "No folder selected, aborted!";

    $folders = listfolder($sel, , 2, <crlf>);
    end (!$folders), "No subfolder(s) found, aborted!";

    $forA = "10|20|30";
    foreach($folder, $folders, <crlf>, "e") {
        $files = listfolder($folder, , 1, <crlf>);
        foreach($file, $files, <crlf>, "e") {
            $ext  = gpc($file, "ext");
            $base = gpc($file, "base");
            // Handle "_a" files
            // Make 3 copies and rename the original
            if (regexmatches($base, "_a$")) {
                $base = regexreplace($base, "_a$");
                foreach($item, $forA, , "e") {
                    $new = $base . " - (" . $item . ")_a." . $ext;
                    copyitem $file, "$folder\$new";
                }
                $new = $base . " - (05)_a." . $ext;
                renameitem($new, $file);
            // Handle all other files
            // Make 30 copies and rename them with 00, 01, ...
            } else {
                $i = 0;
                while ($i++ < 30) {
                    $new = $base . " - (" . format($i, "00") . ")." . $ext;
                    copyitem $file, "$folder\$new";
                }
                $new = $base . " - (00)." . $ext;
                renameitem($new, $file);
            }
        }
    }

Posted: **25 May 2026 02:57**

Excellent. It works exactly as I expected. Thank you very much.

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