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[PowerRename] invoke via command prompt

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#4,390 opened on Jun 18, 2020

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another use-case (that interests me) is to rename downloaded file names using regEx with PowerRenamer,

i have files with the pattern: S1E12 or S1E4 inside the name,

i have to run the tool twice in order to replace all files, once for the single digit names (and pad them with leading zero), and a second time for double digits names,

so a command-line interface to be able to run a rename command with the parameter twice from a single batch would do the trick

Originally posted by @shaybc in https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/3301#issuecomment-636284182

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