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Similar: RenameRegex ( RR ) is a Windows command-line bulk file and directory renamer, using regular expressions. You can use it as a simple file renamer or with a complex regular expression for matching and replacement. Website: https://github.com/nicjansma/rename-regex Download: https://github.co...

CLI database entry: https://cli.portablefreeware.com/?id=562 MiniTrue is a versatile utility which combines a fast and powerful search/replace functionality with a full-featured textviewer, enabling quick and efficient browsing, searching and/or modification of a large number of files. MiniTrue can ...

Still very useful even if no longer updated. Do note that there might be safety/security issues, but when used in standalone setting I think it is nice to have available in your toolset. CLI Zip entry: https://cli.portablefreeware.com/?id=560 CLI Unzip entry: https://cli.portablefreeware.com/?id=56...

Standalone console version of 7-Zip with reduced formats support. Database entry: https://cli.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=559 Standalone console version of 7-Zip with reduced formats support. 7-Zip is a free and open-source file archiver, a utility used to place groups of files within compres...

I use it every day, such a great tool to have at hand in batch files to automate work flow when dealing with PDFs.

PDFtk is mentioned several times on the forum but not as separate thread or (CLI) application, there are two portable Guis, PDFTK Builder and GUI for PDFTK PDFtk is a command-line tool for working with PDFs. It is commonly used for client-side scripting or server-side processing of PDFs. Database e...

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The "popular titles" links on the right don't work as the a href is lacking https part (so link becomes cli.portable..../cli.portable)

Website seems to be offline at the moment, many download sites available incl. https://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Sy ... l#download for those who need it.

The idea is to indeed use it in a batch script :) Think of any cli app where a date format is a parameter, for example xcopy with /d (date) parameter. (Or zip or...) I've used sarch to "always xcopy the files from the last 5 days" to make a backup at the end of the day on Friday. So you can use sarc...

Echodate reminded me of Sarch by AnalogX - various other softwares available at https://analogx.com/ (software in the menu) Sarch allows you to archive logs, delete files using times and dates in your wildcards, and more. Sarch is basically a command executer with a limited number of variables that...

DocTo - Simple command line utility for converting .doc & .xls files to any supported format such as Text, RTF, CSV or PDF Simple utility for converting a Microsoft Word Document '.doc' and Microsoft Excel '.xls' files to any other supported format such as .txt .csv .rtf .pdf. Can also be used to c...

Unless there is a old(er) version easily available to download I'd vote to remove it, simply no longer freeware in my view. The reasons given are mostly by choice and "made up" as for nearly every reason there is perfectly acceptable free way to host, distribute, "upgrade with fancy icons" as illust...

Tested and works (for me): 1. undbx - Tool to extract, recover and undelete e-mail messages from Outlook Express .dbx files. https://sourceforge.net/projects/undbx/ OPERATION When run for the first time, UnDBX extracts all the messages as individual .eml files. In subsequent runs UnDBX synchronizes ...

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