Wild cards in Replace text in File names

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RohanJM Author

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Wild cards in Replace text in File names

Hi all,

Is there a way to use wildcards in the Automator action to replace text in file names.

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Ro

MacBook Pro 2.33 GHz, Mac OS X (10.6.4), 3 GB Ram

Posted on Aug 26, 2010 12:39 PM

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red_menace

Level 6

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Aug 26, 2010 10:38 PM in response to RohanJM

No - the *Rename Finder Items* action does not accept variables or wildcard characters. You can use a *Run Shell Script* action if you are familiar with that kind of thing, and I have an action that will replace a substring that is delimited by the specified text or numerical index, if that would work (it is available here).

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