I love tes3cmd, it's such a powerful tool. But I've run into a wall on something.

I have a lot of IDs in my mod which are prefixed md_ I want them to be az_. So I did a batch Modify with tes3cmd. The issue is that it replaced EVERYTHING. Even the model file names and icon file names (within CS only, so that it broke the links). Now, I don't want to restrict TYPE because there are lots of things with the md prefix and even references within scripts. So I tried to restrict sub-type by doing thusly:

tes3cmd modify --sub-no-match "MODL" --replace "/md_/az_/" Plugin.esp

However, there are two issues:

1) tes3cmd does not seem to recognize this sub record. I see that john.moonsugar used "id:" as a subrecord elsewhere which looks totally unlike http://www.uesp.net/morrow/tech/mw_esm.txt (but possibly misinterpreted). Is there a list of subrecords that tes3cmd recognizes? I have not been able to find one... maybe there's a command to call up a list in the program itself?

2) I'm not sure how to exclude two subrecords (MODL and ITEX) since I don't think --sub-no-match can be called multiple times. Would it be like "/MODL/ITEX/"?

Thanks for the help... also, holy crap, the native windows rename command can really F things up!

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tes3cmd modify --sub-match "ID" --replace "/md_/az_/" Plugin.esp

Is that what you're asking for? I may be misunderstanding the question.

I don't think so. I don't really want to restrict the sub-record because I even want tes3cmd to replace ID references in scripts. And I want to do more than just statics. This includes every single type of ID in the construction set except maybe sounds (already changed those to az_ manually). I'd just do it all manually but a) I'm worried I'd miss something and there are hundreds of IDs in this thing... it would take me forever.

All I really want to do is replace ever single instance of md_ with az_ EXCEPT for ITEX and MODL sub records. I tried the command above but it didn't seem to work. All the MODL records were replaced anyway.

tes3cmd modify --sub-no-match "ITEX" --sub-no-match "MODL" --replace "/md_/az_/" Plugin.esp

I don't have an ESP to test, but I think that works.

Thanks, tried that already though. That's why I posted this thread. I don't know if tes3cmd is using a different set of sub-records, but it still replaced all the MODL and ITEX records in the plugin. I noticed that his other example of a subrecord was "id:" instead of "NAME" like I would expect. So I was wondering if he was using a different list that I was not aware of... I googled all over the place last night trying to find where he got "id:" from. No luck. Now I am wondering if I could get tes3cmd to pull up a list of sub-records though...

Does it still rename ITEX subs when you do just no-match ITEX? If it's a problem of not being able to do two at once then you'll probably need to use the Perl functions instead of replace.

AFAIK tes3cmd uses all the normal sub-record names. You could use the --dump to output your mod into a text file and it'll have all the subrecord names visible for you to check.

I didn't try using no-match. To be honest, I think I only have 1 or 2 icon files which start with md_, so I could manually fix that pretty easily and then just do no-match MODL, if that works.

Won't be able to test it out until I get home though.

I meant to say "sub-no-match". When you did that with MODL as in the OP, was it still changing MODL subrecords? Or was it just an issue when you tried to do no-sub-match on both MODL and ITEX at once?