{filepath}

{f!}

Passes the full path and filename of each selected item. Files are passed one at a time - a command that uses this code will be repeated once for each additional selected item. If no files are selected the command will still be run, passing an empty string for this code.

Full paths, one at a time, selected items not required, long filenames, source file display

{file}

{o!}

Passes the filename only of each selected item (without its path). Multiple files are passed one at a time.

Filenames only, one at a time, selected items not required, long filenames, source file display

{allfilepath}

{F!}

Passes the full path and filename of all selected items at once. The command will only be run once, no matter how many items are selected - the names of all selected items will be passed on the command line separated by spaces.

Full paths, all at once, selected items not required, long filenames, source file display

{allfile}

{O!}

Passes the filename only of all selected items at once. File paths are not passed.

Filenames only, all at once, selected items not required, long filenames, source file display

{filepathshort}

{fs!}

Passes the full path and filename of each selected item, in short (8.3) format. This is useful for running 16 bit programs or other legacy software that can't handle long filenames.

Full paths, one at a time, selected items not required, short filenames, source file display

{fileshort}

{os!}

Passes the filename only (no paths) of each selected item, in short (8.3) format.

Filenames only, one at a time, selected items not required, short filenames, source file display

{allfilepathshort}

{Fs!}

Passes the short (8.3) form of the full path and filename of all selected items at once.

Full paths, all at once, selected items not required, short filenames, source file display

{allfileshort}

{Os!}

Passes the filename only of all selected items at once, in short (8.3) format.

Filenames only, all at once, selected items not required, short filenames, source file display

{filepathdest}

{fd!}

Passes the full path and filename of each selected item in the destination file display. Files are passed one at a time - a command that uses this code will be repeated once for each additional selected item. If no files are selected in the destination, or there is currently no destination, the command will still be run, passing an empty string for this code.

Full paths, one at a time, selected items not required, long filenames, destination file display

{filedest}

{od!}

Passes the filename only of each selected item from the destination file display (without its path). Multiple files are passed one at a time.

Filenames only, one at a time, selected items not required, long filenames, destination file display

{allfilepathdest}

{Fd!}

Passes the full path and filename of all selected items, from the destination file display, all at once. The command will only be run once, no matter how many items are selected - the names of all selected items will be passed on the command line separated by spaces.

Full paths, all at once, selected items not required, long filenames, destination file display

{allfiledest}

{Od!}

Passes the filename only of all selected items at once, from the destination file display. File paths are not passed.

Filenames only, all at once, selected items not required, long filenames, destination file display

{filepathshortdest}

{fsd!}

Passes the full path and filename of each selected item, in short (8.3) format, from the destination file display. This is useful for running 16 bit programs or other legacy software that can't handle long filenames.

Full paths, one at a time, selected items not required, short filenames, destination file display

{fileshortdest}

{osd!}

Passes the filename only (no paths) of each selected item in the destination file display, in short (8.3) format.

Filenames only, one at a time, selected items not required, short filenames, destination file display

{allfilepathshortdest}

{Fsd!}

Passes the short (8.3) form of the full path and filename of all selected items at once, from the destination file display.

Full paths, all at once, selected items not required, short filenames, destination file display

{allfileshortdest}

{Osd!}

Passes the filename only of all selected items at once, in short (8.3) format, from the destination file display.

Filenames only, all at once, selected items not required, short filenames, destination file display

noext

Strips the filename extension from filenames. For example, if {file} returned cat_photo.jpg then {file|noext} would return cat_photo. Note that if the item is a folder then its name will not be changed, even if it contains a dot, as folders are not considered to have file extensions.

ext2

Returns the filename extension without the dot. For example, if {file|ext} returned .jpg then {file|ext2} would return jpg.

escbackslash

Automatically escapes any occurrences of \ in the filename, turning them into \\.

This can be neccessary when using codes like {filepath} to insert paths into strings which will have sequences like \n and \\ interpreted specially.

For example, a command to add the selected file from the source and the selected file from the destination to the clipboard on separate lines:

Clipboard EXPANDNEWLINES SET {filepath|escbackslash}\n{filepathdest|escbackslash}.

In this example, if the source file was C:\New Folder\test.txt then it would be converted to C:\\New Folder\\text.txt. If the \N sequence had not been escaped, it would have removed the letter N from the path and put ew Folder\text.txt on a separate line. (There are more subtle cases when dealing with folder paths, but they are less important with file paths.)

escregexp

Automatically escapes any regular expression characters in the filename. Used when passing filenames to internal commands that understand regular expressions, in case a filename contains characters like \, ., ( and ) which have special meaning to some functions. For example, {file|escregexp|noext} would turn Accounts (2010).xls into Accounts \(2010\).

file

Redirects the filenames to a temporary text file. This is useful with external programs that can accept a list of files from a text file rather than on the command line. (In turn, that is useful because command lines have a maximum length which may limit the number of filenames you can pass directly.) The name of the temporary file is passed on the command line in place of the filenames themselves. In the text file, each filename is separated by a space. If a filename or its path contains an embedded space it will be surrounded by quotes. For example, {allfilepath|file}.

fileq

The same as file except that each filename is always surrounded by quotes, whether it contains an embedded space or not. For example, {allfilepath|fileq}.

utf8

Forces the file written by file, filem or fileq to use UTF-8 format. For example, {allfilepath|filem|utf8}.

ucsbe

Forces the file written by file, filem or fileq to use UCS-16BE format. For example, {allfilepath|filem|ucsbe}.

nopath

Returns only the final component of the path. For example, if {filepath} returns C:\Program Files\GPSoftware\Directory Opus\, {filepath|nopath} would return Directory Opus\. You would normally use something like {file} to get just the name of something, but using {filepath|nopath} has the subtle difference of including the \ on the end of the name when the item is a folder.

noshort

Suppresses automatic shortening of file paths which are longer than 260 characters. Opus itself can handle very long paths but many Windows programs cannot. When sending very long paths to external programs, Opus normally uses the short (8.3) versions to reduce problems. Use noshort to prevent this when you know the target program can cope. For example, {filepath|noshort}.

subdir

Replaces characters in the file's path so that the full path can be added below another path. For example, {filepath|subdir} might return C;\Windows\Notepad.exe. Note that a semi-colon has replaced the colon, allowing the path to be used relative to another directory, say if you wanted to create a backup of the file called D:\Backups\C;\Windows\Notepad.exe.

\

Modifies the code to refer to the root of the drive of the selected item. For example {filepath|\} might return C:\.

%1

{filepath}

%L

{filepath}