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Asked: 2026-06-14T02:47:08+00:00

I am trying to bulk rename around 10,000 files. I have a tool which

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I am trying to bulk rename around 10,000 files. I have a tool which can use Regex to do this.

I simply need a regex matching " (" and everything after that (space, parenthesis, everything).

Anyone able to help with this really simple problem real fast?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Parentheses are meta-characters in regex, i.e. they mean something special. If you want to signify a literal character that happens to be a meta-character, you need to escape it using a backslash (\). For example, consider the caret (^), which is a meta-character that matches the beginning of a string.

    ^abcd
matches strings beginning with the sequence of characters "abcd"

\^abcd
matches the sequence of characters "^abcd"

    You can read up on the difference between special and literal characters in regexen and how to escape them here: http://www.regular-expressions.info/characters.html

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