If this how-to feels a bit simplistic, it’s because we’ve barely scratched Total Commander’s surface. 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. Find a directory in which you wish to create a text file. Last but not least, we’ve selected “First of each word uppercase” in the Upper/lowercase drop-down box. To do so, click Menu, then find the Terminal appwhich resembles a black box with a white > in itand click on it.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.
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. Note how we’ve selected only those files we wish to rename.