Renaming with a RegEx

[pb4072]

Hi,
I need to rename some files. My publishing system doesn't allow underscores. But, some software I use creates underscores when it splits PDFs into multiple files. I need to get rid of the underscores and simply replace them with the letter "p" for "page." But, the pages might have leading zeroes, and, I want to accommodate them, basically, by deleting them.

I'm trying this. These are my files.

test3-p536w3_01.pdf
test3-p536w3_02.pdf
test3-p536w3_03.pdf

ren ::_[0]{1,4} ::p

And, that doesn't work. I get this.

[F:\workflows\grafix\TM_PDF]ren ::_[0]{1,4} ::p
TCC: (Sys) There are no more files.
"F:\workflows\grafix\TM_PDF\::_[0]{1"
TCC: (Sys) The system cannot find the file specified.
"F:\workflows\grafix\TM_PDF\4}"
0 files renamed

It does work when I simply have the underscore alone replaced with the "p." But, not with the regex for one or more zeroes.

Thanks!

 

[dcantor]

You probably have to quote the comma in some way. It looks like TCC is seeing ::_[0-]{1 as a file name and 4} as another file name, separated by the comma.