Command Line

If you start Flash Renamer from a command prompt or .bat script you may give a number of arguments. This allows you to automate Flash Renamer in various ways.

If no command line switches are used, Flash Renamer will treat the command line as a list of files and try to load them into free select mode:

FlashRen.exe "c:\myfile.txt" "d:\a folder\another file.txt"

This allows you to for example put a shortcut to Flash Renamer on the send to menu in Windows Explorer. (Note however, that command lines in Windows are limited in size. If you send a lot of files to Flash Renamer this way, it may not work and you will instead get a very cryptical message. The number of files you can send depend on the number of characters in the filenames path included.)

It is also possible to simply give a folder to start Flash Renamer in:

FlashRen.exe "d:\a folder\"


Command line switches

Using command line switches you can tell Flash Renamer to load files and then run one of your presets on this path. The following command line switches can be used:

Problem:
    Each night you computer downloads a bunch of files, but they all have nasty looking filenames!
Solution:
    First create a preset that makes your filenames look good. Let's call it my preset. Then use the Windows Task Scheduler to launch Flash Renamer every moring with the following command line:

    FlashRen.exe /p c:\download\*.* /r "my preset" /f


Notes: