Smart Renaming / file naming system?

[Imaginer]

Ever run into a problem where you want to rename multiple files but have to rename them individually one by one with one change being a word/number/phrase?

I would hopefully like Vista to incorporate something like a smart naming system where you can rename multiple files or tell multiple files to be renamed with <insert words you want> in the file name at a certain location specifically.

I hope I am not the only one alone in this boat....

And I would like to file that as a suggestion - but I am not a tester or developer. Just a average user.

 

[bersl2]

This is where having a good shell language and toolkit programs is worthwhile.

 

[P0ldy]

Sure, and it's dead easy with *nix. Vista afaik isn't doing any shell upgrades. They took out Monad that was supposed to be a revolutionary shell to be released at a (much) later date.

 

[Markbnj]

Vista is completely replacing the command shell.

http://arstechnica.com/guides/other/msh.ars

[oops, unless this is the 'monad' the above poster was referring to... sucks if they have delayed this beyond the release of Vista]

 

[nweaver]

someone posted a way to mass change filenames a few weeks ago on WinXP...so that you can make an entire directory filename1, filename2, filename3, etc

 

[mikecel79]

Originally posted by: P0ldy
Sure, and it's dead easy with *nix. Vista afaik isn't doing any shell upgrades. They took out Monad that was supposed to be a revolutionary shell to be released at a (much) later date.

Monad or MSH is to be included with Exchange 2007. Monad will be released sperately at that time. So you should see MSH within 6-8 months after the Vista launch.

I can't wait for MSH. I've been using the beta for a while now and it's very powerful.

 

[ivwshane]

I actually learned how to change multiple file names at once by accident.

I had a directory with my camera pics in it that I needed to merge with another pic directory but all the file names were the same. So I proceeded to rename a file but I had unintentionally did a "select all" and after I finished the rename all the files in the directory where renamed as well.

All done from with in windows XP with no special tools installed😀

 

[0roo0roo]

yea it would be nice. the current way isn't that great.

 

[ivwshane]

How hard is it to select all, right click--"rename" and rename the files?