Bulk Rename Strip characters

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Bulk Rename Strip characters

Postby jmacp » Wed Jan 11, 2017 9:03 am

Hi

I have many files to rename examples below

66011 Carluke 2 26-05-14
66013 New Barnetby 17-05-08
66020 66121 New Barnetby 30-04-14
66015 66119 66250 66143 Hartwood 05-05-12
66069 Hartwood 2 06-04-14

Some files have 1 or 2 extra characters and then a date.
What I would like to do is strip the numbers after the last text characters. I can then add date taken in from the options in the program.

66011 Carluke
66013 New Barnetby
66020 66121 New Barnetby
66015 66119 66250 66143 Hartwood
66069 Hartwood

Thanks John
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Re: Bulk Rename Strip characters

Postby KenP » Wed Jan 11, 2017 1:35 pm

This should work.

RegEx (1)
Match: ^(.*)([a-z])
Replace: \1\2
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Re: Bulk Rename Strip characters

Postby jmacp » Wed Jan 11, 2017 5:36 pm

That's great thanks another question if I may?

When the program encounters a duplicate file it adds 1, 2 etc

Technically it adds 1 to the second file it encounters. ie

duplicate.jpg
duplicate_1.jpg
duplicate_2.jpg

Is there any way to make it start at the first file?
Thanks
John
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Re: Bulk Rename Strip characters

Postby KenP » Wed Jan 11, 2017 6:04 pm

jmacp wrote:Is there any way to make it start at the first file?

Sorry I don't know of any way to do that, it may be possible in BRU with Javascript but I'm not aware of any other way to do it.
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