Loop rename files using lookup table, with 'rename' command

Question

I'm trying to use a lookup table to rename files in a batch using a while loop.

Here are my filenames:

file1_a.txt
file2_a.txt
file3_b.txt
file4_b.txt
file5_c.txt

I also have a lookup table, tab-separated (rename.tsv). The first 1st column is the original string, and the 2nd column is the new string.

file1  file10
file2  file20
file3  file3
file4  file4

The expected output should be changing all the filenames as follows:

file10_a.txt
file20_a.txt
file3_b.txt
file4_b.txt
file5_c.txt

Here's my bash script. I'm using 'rename' and not 'mv' to make use of regex.

while IFS='\t' read orig new; do
        origfile="$orig"
        newfile="$new"
        rename -n -v "s/$origfile/$newfile/" *.txt
done < rename.tsv

This script produces no output, but also no errors, so it's not clear what I'm doing wrong. Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

If your rename command is not perl based, it doesn't support "/org/new/" syntax, which is a perl expression. Please try instead:

while IFS=$'\t' read -r orig new; do
    rename -v "$orig" "$new" *.txt
done < rename.tsv

Please note the usage of $'\t', not '\t'.
As a side note, your redundant variable assignments seem unnecessary.