Good day,
I am trying to rename/organize files based on the match/lookup found in the text file.
I have a couple of hundred Cyrillic(Russian) named media files in a folder like this:
*note that some files have spaces
The text file, with the desired names, looks like this:
The reason it looks that way (with | as a separator) is because I tried using "Bulk Renaming Utility" which uses pipe | as a separator for "Rename Pairs" function. So essentially, the filename to the right of pipe | is the final product. Unfortunately, that function does not work with Cyrillic(Russian) or other non standard characters.
I found PowerShell script HERE which appears to be almost what I need except that it does not match file names before renaming. Similarly, I found this Python script HERE which does what i need but it's for Ubuntu. Unfortunately, I am on a Windows7 and not sure it applies to me.
Any recommendations?
Thank you very much for your time!
You could read the text file into a hashtable, where the key is the old name (the value on the left hand side of the |), and the value is the new name:
$RenameTable = @{}
Get-Content textfile.txt |ForEach-Object {
$OldName,$NewName = $_.Split('|')
$RenameTable[$OldName] = $NewName
}
Then rename the files based on what is in the hashtable:
Get-ChildItem .\folder\with\avi\files |Rename-Item -NewName {
if($RenameTable.ContainsKey($_.Name)){
$RenameTable[$_.Name]
} else {
$_.Name
}
}