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Hoping somebody can help with this please?

I have dozens of files with the following generic type of file name:- "Program name S01E01 some words.avi"

What I want to do is bulk delete "some words" from each of the files. In reality, the "some words" are all different.

I use a program called "Renamer" but I just can't see how to setup an expression to strip out the unwanted text other than to do each file individually.

Not saying there's a lot of them but at the age of 55 I don't have sufficient life left to do them one at a time

Any help would be appreciated, thanks

See if this helps Paul.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/wind ... d59c2e4016

Just tried it Paul and it's quick and simple.

I have the program Richard but I can't see how to use it on a group of files with a variable number of words to be removed?


BTW, I have a total of 11000+ files to manipulate

Oh only a couple then . right you you mean you have a line "Program name S01E01 some words.avi".

and you want to replace the word "name" with "anothername" then remove "s01e01"?

No, it is the "some words" that I need to remove Richard but the words in reality are all different and there are different numbers of them.

However, now having read the manual I can see what I need to do.

Thanks for your help

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Glad I could help Paul.

del *.* would solve the problem quite fast.

I can imagine it might cause others...



(sorry but wildcards always mean * when I think about it)