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Rename files from a text-file of filenames & concatenate....

Postby freemansteve » Fri Feb 05, 2021 3:50 pm

There used to be great renaming utility, now fairly defunct, that was called "Name It Your Own Way!" e.g.https://download.cnet.com/Name-It-Your-Way-NIYoW/3000-2248_4-10310757.html

It had a couple of features that I still use, namely:

1) The ability to read in a text file containing a list of names, one per line, and using that to sequentially rename a selected set of input files.

2) The ability to set up a sequence of renaming rules (and save them in a rule file, like a .bru file), so you could apply a series of changes, with each successive rule acting on the result of a previous rule.

Can you do either in BRU?

If not, these are really useful features to have!

Thanks
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Re: Rename files from a text-file of filenames & concatenate....

Postby Admin » Fri Feb 05, 2021 10:59 pm

Hi, yes, both present in BRU,

1) see Import Rename Pairs
2) yes every rule you apply in BRU follows the previous one. You also have Javascript renaming with which you can script the renaming.

thanks
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Re: Rename files from a text-file of filenames & concatenate....

Postby freemansteve » Thu Feb 11, 2021 12:44 pm

Thank you!
I will try those features - at least I now know how they are referred to!
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Re: Rename files from a text-file of filenames & concatenate....

Postby windbag » Mon Mar 20, 2023 12:10 pm

I thought this was going to be exactly what I needed. Almost, but no.
It would be really helpful if, in a set of sequential files in the display, a text file could be imported to rename them sequentially without having to put in the full original filename & full new name as a pair

ie highlighting

File1
File2
File3

& text file arranged as :

newname 1
newname 2
newname 3

I'm not up to scripting ! :-(
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