If I have any quibble with Name Mangler, it’s that it does just the opposite of what its own name promises: it brings order to chaos, not the other way around. If you find yourself doing this frequently, however, it could save you significant time, and stave off the boredom of a repetetive task. Name Mangler is a very focused program: it helps you make changes to the names of sets of files. These files were much easier to discuss with my fellow evaluators, and much easier to keep sorted. In a matter of minutes, my papers were listed “UniversityWritingAssessment_StudentPaper001,” “UniversityWritingAssessment_StudentPaper002,” and so on. I added the hundreds of files to Name Mangler, asked it to number them sequentially to three digits and append something like “UniversityWritingAssessment_StudentPaper” to the beginning of each file. In other words, too many were named “Untitled.doc,” while the other names were diverse in construction and unhelpful to our enterprise. When we received these papers-hundreds of them-they were still named as the students named them. To cite one more instance: I helped organize a large-scale assessment of student papers at my school last year. I don’t use Name Mangler all that often, but when I find myself juggling a large group of files I do appreciate the way it helps me make sense of them. Honestly, I’ve never needed any of the options here. This command allows you to perform more complex changes to batches of file names. This command could help you remove unhelpful numbers from a set of file names, for instance, and replace them with more descriptive text. This command also allows you to insert characters to replace those it removes.
You set where Name Mangler should begin removing characters-from the front of the file name or from the back-and from which precise character-starting with character 2, for instance. Similar to find and replace, this command allows you to remove a set number of characters from file names. hashedemail hashlib.md5(''.join(inputemail.lower().split. inputemail ' ' The input email address is downcased and ALL whitespace (not only spaces) is removed. Import hashing library import hashlib The input email has capital letters and a space at the end. This command is a more focused version of the numbering command described above it allows you to add additional text to the beginning or end of a batch of file names. The following code snippet shows an example of how to perform an MD5 hash of an email address in Python. This command allows to change the file extensions for a batch of files.
This command does pretty much what its title says. You can choose whether to add these new features to the original file names, or to replace the original file names entirely. This command also allows you to append a prefix before the assigned numbers in the filename, a suffix after the numbers, or both. You tell Name Mangler where to start, and how many digits to use (so the first file could be “1,” “01,” or “001,” depending on your needs). It allows you to append numbers to the end of file names. If you need to correct a typo in a series of file names, you would use this command. This command will find a particular set of characters in your chosen files and replace them with characters you’ve chosen. Name Mangler allows you to perform a range of specific changes to sets of file names: With more than 100 individual page files, however, I did not want to select and rename each one.Įnter Name Mangler, a batch renaming tool for OS X (for alternative batch naming tools, including several for Windows or Linux, see alternativeTo’s entry on Name Mangler). Each image was a page from a single book, and I wanted to rename the files to reflect the book’s author, title, publication year, and page numbers.
The images had been scanned by a special collections librarian, who had named each of the files by number. Indeed, in this case, the PHP engine will convert the string into a floating number having the value 0.This past week, I was preparing some images to upload to my Omeka archive. However this functionality can become a flaw when handling MD5 string whose value has the form 0e followed by digits between 0 and 9. By default, Name Mangler remembers your last 50 renaming actions, but you can increase or decrease this value (or set it to unlimited or off) in the preferences. The PHP language has a default functionality: the type juggling which allows to not define the type of variable used, the PHP engine tries to automatically detect if the variable is a string, an integer, etc. Name Mangler's elephant-like memory means you can easily access any previously-used renaming action, and reuse it with a couple of mouse clicks.
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