RELATED: How Do You Actually Use Regex? Not an End, But a Beginning That’s it! Now simply hit Start! and Total Commander would transform your messy filenames into neat, properly capitalized filenames with no underscores or dashes. Last but not least, we’ve selected “First of each word uppercase” in the Upper/lowercase drop-down box.We won’t go too deeply into that right now, but we can say what we did in the first step (-|_) is a simple regular expression, which is why we need to enable this.

We then ticked the checkbox that says RegEx.That’s because we want to replace all the dashes and underscores with spaces. You can’t see that in the image, but it’s there. Then, in the Replace with box, we just typed a single space character.The pipe means “OR” - so we tell Total Commander to search for dashes OR underscores. That’s dash (-), pipe (|) and underscore (_). To replace all the dashes and the underscore with spaces, we typed -|_ into the Search for box.Now let’s start tweaking some of the settings and see what happens. The old name is on the left side, the new one is on the right.

At first, the multi-rename tool simply shows you the current filenames. This is where the magic happens, at least for this How-To. Now go into the multi-rename tool by pressing Ctrl+M or opening the Files menu and clicking Multi-Rename Tool. The name was changed in 2002 after Microsoft pointed out that the word 'Windows' was their trademark.Note how we’ve selected only those files we wish to rename. įrom 1993 until 2002, Total Commander was called Windows Commander.

Many functions not available by default are supported and can be assigned to icons. different packer formats or file viewer for special file formats. Many plugins are freely available for e.g. The utility supports extensibility via plugins, and it can bind external programs for viewing or editing files. It is for the most part compatible with Linux using Wine. It features a built-in FTP client, tabbed interface, file compare, archive file navigation, and a multi-rename tool with regular expression support. Originally coded using Delphi, latest Windows 64-bit versions were developed with Lazarus. Total Commander (formerly Windows Commander) is a shareware orthodox file manager for Windows, Windows Phone, Windows Mobile/ Windows CE and Android, developed by Christian Ghisler.

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