Some Sally operations, such as Copy, Move, or Rename, support entering an operation mask. The operation mask is appended after the target path.
Operation masks can contain special characters - asterisk (*) for the rest of the name or the extension and question mark (?) for a single character. So the operation mask 'new_*.???' generates names that begin with 'new_' followed by the rest of the original name (from the fifth character to the end), and end with (.) followed by three characters from the original extension.
Operation masks are usually used for simpler operations, such as changing extensions in a group of files (you can use '*.html' for renaming .htm files to .html files, etc.).
If you need more sophisticated renaming or moving, consider using the Renamer plugin.
The mask is divided by the first period (from the left side) into a mask for the name and a mask for the extension. Example: filename is "a.b.c.d" (name is "a.b.c", extension is "d"), mask is "*.*.old", the mask is divided into "*" and "*.old", resulting filename is "a.b.c.d.old" ("a.b.c" + "*" = "a.b.c"; "d" + "*.old" = "d.old").
Copy dialog box
Move/Rename dialog box
Quick Rename dialog box