Welcome!

By registering with us, you'll be able to discuss, share and private message with other members of our community.

SignUp Now!

Replacing Spaces With Underscores

nchernoff

Administrator
May
42
2
Staff member
Migrated From JP Software Wiki

Underscore.btm displays all files in a folder in a point-and-shoot menu and for filenames selected it replaces all 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.

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. Instead of echo, TEXT -- ENDTEXT can be used to create a large multi-step batch file.

Batch file code

Code:
:  underscore.btm
:  by Joseph "Rick" Reinckens
:
:  Displays all files in a folder in a point-and-shoot menu
:  For filenames selected it replaces all spaces with underscores

:  FUNCTION underscore %@replace[ ,_,%1]
@echo off

:  Create a temporary batch file
echo `rename %1 %@replace[ ,_,%1]`>c:\zztemp.btm

select call c:\zztemp.btm (*.*)

:  Delete the temporary file
del c:\zztemp.btm /q

Contributed by Rick Reinckens
 
Back
Top