Hello!

I need to rename 400+ xml files. The name of the specific file is contained in a xml tag in the file itself.

The batch file should rename all these files with strings found in xml tags.

Every xml file has the following tags:

<footnote><para>FILENAME</para></footnote>

If Perl is available:

perl -ne'
    close ARGV and rename $ARGV, $1 
      if m|<footnote><para>([^<]*)</para></footnote>|
    ' xmlfile1 xmlfile2 ... xmlfilen

Another one with awk:

awk -F "[<>]" '
/<footnote><para>/{f=$5;exit}
END{system("mv " FILENAME " " f)}
' file

Thanks a lot! Works great!