Script to rename a large number of files using the text in each file to rename
I am trying to devise a solution to rename a large collection of files so that the text in line 3 of each file is the new filename. These files all have the same structure. My scripting ability is poor so I am hoping this problem has been approached before by others so I don't need to invent a new wheel? I've been consulting some sed and awk tutorials but not finding a solution there.
These are HTML files and specifically line 3 of each file looks like this.
DATA POPULATION 'CODE on group 1234 by THING'
I want to grab everything between the single quotes and use that text to rename the file with that text as the filename.
Can anyone point me down the right path to approach this task? The notion of renaming these one at a time would just be murder.
Thanks for reading and pondering this problem.
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I am trying to devise a solution to rename a large collection of files so that the text in line 3 of each file is the new filename. These files all have the same structure. My scripting ability is poor so I am hoping this problem has been approached before by others so I don't need to invent a new wheel? I've been consulting some sed and awk tutorials but not finding a solution there.
These are HTML files and specifically line 3 of each file looks like this.
DATA POPULATION 'CODE on group 1234 by THING'
I want to grab everything between the single quotes and use that text to rename the file with that text as the filename.
Can anyone point me down the right path to approach this task? The notion of renaming these one at a time would just be murder.
Thanks for reading and pondering this problem.
shell-script rename
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I am trying to devise a solution to rename a large collection of files so that the text in line 3 of each file is the new filename. These files all have the same structure. My scripting ability is poor so I am hoping this problem has been approached before by others so I don't need to invent a new wheel? I've been consulting some sed and awk tutorials but not finding a solution there.
These are HTML files and specifically line 3 of each file looks like this.
DATA POPULATION 'CODE on group 1234 by THING'
I want to grab everything between the single quotes and use that text to rename the file with that text as the filename.
Can anyone point me down the right path to approach this task? The notion of renaming these one at a time would just be murder.
Thanks for reading and pondering this problem.
shell-script rename
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Daniel CrossDaniel Cross
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I am trying to devise a solution to rename a large collection of files so that the text in line 3 of each file is the new filename. These files all have the same structure. My scripting ability is poor so I am hoping this problem has been approached before by others so I don't need to invent a new wheel? I've been consulting some sed and awk tutorials but not finding a solution there.
These are HTML files and specifically line 3 of each file looks like this.
DATA POPULATION 'CODE on group 1234 by THING'
I want to grab everything between the single quotes and use that text to rename the file with that text as the filename.
Can anyone point me down the right path to approach this task? The notion of renaming these one at a time would just be murder.
Thanks for reading and pondering this problem.
shell-script rename
shell-script rename
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