Button for renaming files

[HerbieFlo]

hi!

How can I make a button which renames selected file from:
"FILENAME.WAV"
to
"i1_FILENAME.WAV"

I would like to have ie. 9 buttons. Each button to rename selected file to (i1, i2, i3,... i9)

OR

a better solution would be to make a shortcut on keyboard ie. have a selected file and press CTRL+ALT+1 for "i1",...

Thank you for you time.

[Stiltzkin]

copy this and paste it into the buttonbar (rightclick - > Paste)

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TOTALCMD#BAR#DATA
%comspec% /c
rename %P%N "i1_%N"
%comspec%
rename [1]

if you want to set a hotkey for this you need to define a usercmd:
Image: https://upright-waste.000webhostapp.com/images/rename_1.png
Image: https://upright-waste.000webhostapp.com/images/rename_2.png

[HerbieFlo]

i did like you wrote, but "cmd" blinks and does nothing..

i have a version 8.51.

ty

[Stiltzkin]

try /k instead of /c.
it will keep the cmd window open. any errors there?
some unicode characters in the filename?

[HerbieFlo]

the syntex of the ocmmand is incorrect

[Stiltzkin]

does your button look like this? https://upright-waste.000webhostapp.com/images/rename_3.png

update: totalcmd puts "" around filenames with spaces in it, so you end up with this:

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rename d:\Test File with spaces.txt i1_"Test File with spaces.txt"

that's why it's not working

[HerbieFlo]

yes it does. exactly.

what should i do. even if i try with file without spaces. its the same.

UPDATE!

sorry.. without spaces it works... how can i do workaround to make it work with files with spaces?

[HerbieFlo]

ok... i just added another "" around this (%N):

rename %P%N "i1_"%N""

it does the job

[Stiltzkin]

same with powershell (you can select multiple files with this one):

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TOTALCMD#BAR#DATA
Powershell -NoLogo
Get-Content '%UL' | ForEach {$prefix='i1_'} { Rename-Item -LiteralPath $_ -NewName (-join($prefix,(GI -LiteralPath $_).Name)) }
WCMICONS.DLL,32
rename - i1_

[HerbieFlo]

Using this function for a while now. it works perfectly and saves me a lot of time thank you all!

In addition, it happens sometimes that i have to rename it. which means I have to delete first three letters.

Is it possible to scrypt that it deletes the first three letters of a selected file?

Thank you.

[Stiltzkin]

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TOTALCMD#BAR#DATA
Powershell -NoLogo
gc '%UL' | %% {ren -LiteralPath $_ -NewName (((GI -LiteralPath $_).Name).substring(3))}
WCMICONS.DLL,32
remove first 3

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Get-Content '%UL' | ForEach {Rename-Item -LiteralPath $_ -NewName (((GI -LiteralPath $_).Name).substring(3))}

[petermad]

This button should also do it - it requires TC 10.00

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TOTALCMD#BAR#DATA
%COMSPEC% /C
rename %P%N "i1_"%N:~3,255""
wcmicons.dll,63
Rename and cut off 3 first charaters

1
-1

[HerbieFlo]

PERFECT! I love 10!

FYI... not for this topic.
I don't know why, but in some versions i've found a "bug"... when searching and "find files" was open and i wanted to listen one *.wav file, and then pressed ESC, it closed "lister" and "search window" at the same time (ESC pushed only once)

In this 10.00 version it's corrected. One push ESC - exits only Lister. Second push ESC - exits search window.

I simply couldn't find what was wrong. could it be a bug in previous (x64) versions?