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Renlow_score.btm displays all files in a folder in a point-and-shoot menu and for filenames selected it converts the name to lowercase and replaces spaces with underscores.
This is particularly useful when uploading to a Unix/Linux system files created in Windows, because Unix/Linux often automatically replaces spaces in filenames with "%20", in which case links to the uploaded files that still contain spaces in the names may not work. Also, directory and file names are not case-sensitive in Windows but are case-sensitive in Unix/Linux. Common practice in Unix/Linux is for path and file names to be entirely lowercase.
Programming technique
I tried using select with the @replace function and the rename command but they don't work together. The solution is to use echo to write code for a temporary batch file, have select call the batch file and then delete the batch file.
If the text processing needed multiple steps, instead of echoing a single function line, TEXT -- ENDTEXT could write a large multi-step temporary batch file.
Batch file code
Contributed by Rick Reinckens
Renlow_score.btm displays all files in a folder in a point-and-shoot menu and for filenames selected it converts the name to lowercase and replaces spaces with underscores.
This is particularly useful when uploading to a Unix/Linux system files created in Windows, because Unix/Linux often automatically replaces spaces in filenames with "%20", in which case links to the uploaded files that still contain spaces in the names may not work. Also, directory and file names are not case-sensitive in Windows but are case-sensitive in Unix/Linux. Common practice in Unix/Linux is for path and file names to be entirely lowercase.
Programming technique
I tried using select with the @replace function and the rename command but they don't work together. The solution is to use echo to write code for a temporary batch file, have select call the batch file and then delete the batch file.
If the text processing needed multiple steps, instead of echoing a single function line, TEXT -- ENDTEXT could write a large multi-step temporary batch file.
Batch file code
Code:
: renlow_score.btm
: by Joseph "Rick" Reinckens
:
: Displays all files in a folder in a point-and-shoot menu
: For filenames selected it converts the name to all lowercase
: and replaces all spaces with underscores
: FUNCTION scorelow %@replace[ ,_,%@lower[%1]]
@echo off
: Create a temporary batch file
echo `rename %1 %@replace[ ,_,%@lower[%1]]`>c:\zztemp.btm
select call c:\zztemp.btm (*.*)
: Delete the temporary file
del c:\zztemp.btm /q
