Something I do quite a bit is take a file like this:

file1.txt
file2.txt
file3.txt

and a file likes this:

Fred
George
Alex

and convert it to

mv "file1.txt" "a long filename - 1 - Fred.txt"
mv "file3.txt" "a long filename - 2 - George.txt"
mv "file3.txt" "a long filename - 3 - Alex.txt"

I do this by running one search replace, and then doing a column insert right before the .txt of the list of names. This works great and I have no problems with it, unless the filenames are of differing lengths:

fileone.txt
filethree.txt
filefourteennintytwo.txt

and I end up with

mv "fileone.txt" "fileone - .txt"
mv "filethree.txt" "filethree - .txt"
mv "filefourteennintytwo.txt" "filefourteennintytwo - .txt"

and I can no long insert the lines from the second file into the appropriate place in this file.

Where I need to insert the names may change depending on what I am working with, and it could be in the middle of a long file name like

mv "2010-05-27 AM.txt" "2010 Annual Meetings Notes - George - 20100527.txt"
mv "IT meeting 2010 04 17" "2010 IT Meeting Note - Alex - 20100417.txt"

getting the files to the point where I can then insert the names is not a problem I have processes and searches to do all that, the only issue is not being able to do the column paste because the lines don't line up. Since I am moving to a standard filenaming convention, the RIGHT side (the target name) is always going to be the same length (up until I paste in the names) so if there was some way to right justify all the lines quickly or to do a column insert at '15 characters from end of line that would sort me out. Or is there something else I am missing?

(SOMETIMES I can use prefix/postfix lines, but often that is not so easy)

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