merlin1949
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Hi there-
Just reorganising my Library and for reasons I won't bore you with, need to do some mass amendments to Filenames to get rid of extraneous Info as I'm tight on Space.
So, for instance, I have a Folder (DIRectory) with one hundred PDF, Mobi, RAR, ZIP, CBR and CBZ files in it all with filenames in the following format :-
Henry Rider Haggard (Victorian Novelist, Africa Hand) [Title of Short Story/Novel/Graphic Novel].???
As :-
a) I do happen to know who H Rider Haggard is (having read my first book of his 55 years ago when I was Ten)
b) All the Files are going to go into a Directory (Folder) Entitled "Henry Rider Haggard" (in case I suddenly get struck down with Oldtimer's disease)
then I want to get rid of the words "Henry Rider Haggard (Victorian Novelist, Africa Hand)" which is common to every Filename.
My latest attempt at a Command Line blanket change from within the Folder (Directory) was the DOS command -
REN "Henry Rider Haggard (Victorian Novelist, Africa Hand)"*.??? *.???
I have also tried :-
Using the different extensions (.CBR .ZIP .RAR etc ) to change them 20 or 30 at a time
Using the same Format but *.* instead of *.???
Using no Inverted Commas on the part of the Description that I want to get rid of
Yes, I DO realise that in the time I have spent fiddling about with Command Line and composing this Post I COULD have done the whole thing Manually, BUT I have Sixty Five separate Authors to create Directories (Folders) for with about Five to 100 or so Short Stories/Novels etc. to change in exactly the same way (Many Titles will have entries in RAR, Mobi, PDF, CBR and CBZ formats so someone like Herbert George Wells has 135 individual Titles with over 850 separate Files.
"Have you no Sons and Daughters" I hear you say. "They would only be too pleased to take this onerous task off your aged and care burdened shoulders in the Twilight of your ears, repaying in some small measure the Years of Toil that you have endured on their behalf."
Al I can say to such a Naieve and disingenuous suggestion is "HA", "HA" and THRICE more "HA".
a) My Daughter, who is now 35, is WAY past the age of falling for a pound's worth of Choccies and a good book to perform these tasks for me
b) pretending to be THRILLED at the prospect of such a mind bendingly boring job in order to make her plead to help me only ever worked for Tom Sawyer
c) the Moral Blackmail, once extremely effective, became unusable due to over use many years ago. The days are LONG gone when I could happily rely on getting these little chores done with phrases like :-
"Don't you LOVE your poor Daddy, then, Bethan"
and
"You wouldn't like to see Daddy CRY, would you, darling"
and the ultimate
"I just wanted you to know that I've left everything to you in my Will. It's in that draw in the kitchen - just in case something happens to me. Sudden like. and I don't get a chance to say Goodbye"
So I've got to do it myself - with your help, of course.
After all, you wouldn't like to see an Old Man cry, would you...............
Merlin
Just reorganising my Library and for reasons I won't bore you with, need to do some mass amendments to Filenames to get rid of extraneous Info as I'm tight on Space.
So, for instance, I have a Folder (DIRectory) with one hundred PDF, Mobi, RAR, ZIP, CBR and CBZ files in it all with filenames in the following format :-
Henry Rider Haggard (Victorian Novelist, Africa Hand) [Title of Short Story/Novel/Graphic Novel].???
As :-
a) I do happen to know who H Rider Haggard is (having read my first book of his 55 years ago when I was Ten)
b) All the Files are going to go into a Directory (Folder) Entitled "Henry Rider Haggard" (in case I suddenly get struck down with Oldtimer's disease)
then I want to get rid of the words "Henry Rider Haggard (Victorian Novelist, Africa Hand)" which is common to every Filename.
My latest attempt at a Command Line blanket change from within the Folder (Directory) was the DOS command -
REN "Henry Rider Haggard (Victorian Novelist, Africa Hand)"*.??? *.???
I have also tried :-
Using the different extensions (.CBR .ZIP .RAR etc ) to change them 20 or 30 at a time
Using the same Format but *.* instead of *.???
Using no Inverted Commas on the part of the Description that I want to get rid of
Yes, I DO realise that in the time I have spent fiddling about with Command Line and composing this Post I COULD have done the whole thing Manually, BUT I have Sixty Five separate Authors to create Directories (Folders) for with about Five to 100 or so Short Stories/Novels etc. to change in exactly the same way (Many Titles will have entries in RAR, Mobi, PDF, CBR and CBZ formats so someone like Herbert George Wells has 135 individual Titles with over 850 separate Files.
"Have you no Sons and Daughters" I hear you say. "They would only be too pleased to take this onerous task off your aged and care burdened shoulders in the Twilight of your ears, repaying in some small measure the Years of Toil that you have endured on their behalf."
Al I can say to such a Naieve and disingenuous suggestion is "HA", "HA" and THRICE more "HA".
a) My Daughter, who is now 35, is WAY past the age of falling for a pound's worth of Choccies and a good book to perform these tasks for me
b) pretending to be THRILLED at the prospect of such a mind bendingly boring job in order to make her plead to help me only ever worked for Tom Sawyer
c) the Moral Blackmail, once extremely effective, became unusable due to over use many years ago. The days are LONG gone when I could happily rely on getting these little chores done with phrases like :-
"Don't you LOVE your poor Daddy, then, Bethan"
and
"You wouldn't like to see Daddy CRY, would you, darling"
and the ultimate
"I just wanted you to know that I've left everything to you in my Will. It's in that draw in the kitchen - just in case something happens to me. Sudden like. and I don't get a chance to say Goodbye"
So I've got to do it myself - with your help, of course.
After all, you wouldn't like to see an Old Man cry, would you...............
Merlin
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