1_Features of multirename

Features

• Simple replacements or removes. Look for a sign and replace it with another one. E.g.: Change all spaces in filenames with an underscore (_).

• Replacements using pcre engine (Perl compatible regular expressions). Regular expressions are patterns detection. With filenames it can help to split complex names to rebuild the filename you need. E.g.:

  "2015-01-01-20.00.00 The daily news.mpg"
  will become
  "daily_news_-_2015-01-01.mpg"
  

• Find relevant files or directorys by a list of search keywords or regular expressions.

• Renaming including the path or breadcrumbs of the path the file belongs to. The path or the parts of it are always available to be used for the replacement.

• Replacements including regular expressions and including path replacements in a regular exression. E.g.: /(%path2%)?(.*)?(\d{5})?/i Checkout the examples for more.

• Creation of hard links or symlinks, relative or absolut instead of renaming the files. Including relocating in this case. "this" goes "../in/here/that"

• Possibility to undo an action. < version 1.3.3

• Possibility to undo multiple or seletced actions from history > version 2.*

• A test mode to check the results when starting a rename process.

• Presets: Possibility to save/update/delete a configuration. E.g. for a later usage or batch processing like cron, at, batch...

• Scan for matches in a recusivly way or just files in the given directory.

• Scan for matches including search function also able to use regular expr.

• Excluding matches you dont want to rename

• Scan for all files or a given list of file extensions. E.g.: doc;docx;xls

• Using external scripts as plugins to assist the renaming befor or after the internal renaming performs. E.g. loading a new name from a text file.

• More features to come. Some are already in the code marked as TODO.