Square brackets on filename

Hi,
I'm having trouble renaming folders/files with square brackets on them.

e.g.: I want folder "movie xyz (year) [1080p] [exam.ple]" be renamed to "movie xyz (year)".

I've tried rename with pattern name --> replace "text" with " " but it doesn't work.

Couldn't find anything on the forums except some thread from back in 2008. It didn't help me much, also kinda complicated.

Any tips?

Look up "match patterns" in the help. You can store what you want to keep into a custom text attribute and use that in a Rename action.

That doesn't really accomplish what I'd like (unless I'm doing it wrong)

Here's the case: downloaded movies have this pattern "movie name (year) [1080p] [exam.ple]"
This "[1080p] [exam.ple]" is the only repetitive text on every download. Movie name and year varies.

I don't see how match patterns can help remove or exclude this "[1080p] [exam.ple]" later when renaming since matching custom text can't work if the movie name is always different.

Or would you mind and formulate?

Thanks!

You can use a custom text attribute to match everything up to that point. Some something like:

(• custom attribute)[(anything)][(anything)]

where custom attribute can be set to match (anything). This will result in the custom attribute grabbing everything up to the sequence of stuff inside square brackets at the end.

Thanks Mr. Noodle! It worked =)