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Old 02-03-2015
Multiple File renaming with a twist
Hi

I can do simple file renaming but this task is slightly more troublesome
Ive got a guy that gives me multiple .pdf filles in a directory named
something like

Code:
3412345.pdf
4565465.pdf
8534534.pdf

And he also gives me a html file which is tabled with which shows the filenames above and the titles.
E.G
Code:
England|SolarPanels roof|3412345.pdf
Scotland|SolarPanels Garden|4565465.pdf
Ireland|SolarPanels Wall|8534534.pdf

What I want to do is rename all of the files in the directory to match the titles so I want to rename
Code:
 3412345.pdf to SolarPanels roof.pdf
4565465.pdf to SolarPanels Garden.pdf
8534534.pdf to SolarPanels Wall.pdf

Is there a way I can do this in a shell script which would be quick n easy?!! I can create a .txt file or whaever is needed to be read as input
Any help would save me a lot of time
Last edited by Don Cragun; 02-03-2015 at 09:36 AM.. Reason: Add CODE and ICODE tags.
# 2  
Old 02-03-2015
Hi

1) For future post, use code tags as required by the forum rules!
2) its quick Smilie
Code:
IFS="|"
while read country label pdf
do
    mv "$pdf" "${label}.pdf"
done<textfile.txt

hth
# 3  
Old 02-03-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by messiah1
Hi

I can do simple file renaming but this task is slightly more troublesome
Ive got a guy that gives me multiple .pdf filles in a directory named
something like

3412345.pdf
4565465.pdf
8534534.pdf
And he also gives me a html file which is tabled with which shows the filenames above and the titles.
E.G
England|SolarPanels roof|3412345.pdf
Scotland|SolarPanels Garden|4565465.pdf
Ireland|SolarPanels Wall|8534534.pdf

What I want to do is rename all of the files in the directory to match the titles so I want to rename
3412345.pdf to SolarPanels roof.pdf
4565465.pdf to SolarPanels Garden.pdf
8534534.pdf to SolarPanels Wall.pdf

Is there a way I can do this in a shell script which would be quick n easy?!! I can create a .txt file or whaever is needed to be read as input
Any help would save me a lot of time
Hello messiah1,

Could you please use code tags for commands/codes/Inputs in your posts as per forum rules, following may help you in same.
Code:
awk -vs="\"" -F"|" '{print "mv " $3 OFS s $2 s}' Input_file

If happy with result of above command you can use following.
Code:
awk -vs="\"" -F"|" '{print "mv " $3 OFS s $2 s}' Input_file | sh

Thanks,
R. Singh
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