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Using bash, how I can batch rename a large number of files, where I need to construct a new name for each file, based on its existing name and a 'contextual map' - don't know what else to call it – of name fragments.
I have a lot of files in like this:
001.jpg
003.jpg
004.jpg
007.jpg
...
and a map like this:
001,white
003,grey
004,red
007,green
...
And now I want to rename all files, so that 001.jpg becomes 001-white.jpg etc..
How can I do this?
bash4: First read the mappings into an array
declare -A arr2
while IFS=, read -r -a arr; do
arr2[${arr[0]}]="${arr[1]}";
done < mapfile.txt
And then rename
for f in [0-9][0-9][0-9].jpg; do
if [[ "${arr2[${f%.*}]+_}" ]]
then
mv -- "${f}" "${f%.*}"-"${arr2[${f%.*}]}"."${f##*.}";
else
mv -- "${f}" "${f%.*}"-default."${f##*.}";
fi
done
zsh but not in bash or ksh93 where numbers with a leading 0 are considered as octal.
Nov 9, 2013 at 20:15
GNU bash, version 4.2.25 before posting, it works. I am guessing this is because arr2 is considered an associative array by default under bash 4 so the index is not considered an "arithmetic context"?
042-.jpg. You may want to add a test for this.
Nov 10, 2013 at 19:41
arr2 an associative array. Tagging this a bash4 solution
You can simply execute
join -t. -j1 <(tr , . < map) filelist | sed 's/\./-/' | paste filelist - | xargs -L1 mv
where map is the contextual map and filelist is the list of files. The join will split on . and uses the first field as a join value; both lists must be sorted. paste will then glue each line of filelist with the newly generated filename together in one line, while xargs then calls mv on each of those lines.
Here you go:
for file in [0-9][0-9][0-9].jpg;do
name="${file%%.*}" # Remove extension
map="$(grep "$name" map_file | cut -d',' -f 2)"
echo mv "$file" "$name-$map".jpg
done
This assumes the "map" is in the file map_file. In recent versions of Bash, you can also transform this file into an associative array and use that for convenience (instead of going through the map_file for each new file you want to rename).
By the way, this will only echo the mv commands. Remove the echo when you feel that everything is in order to actually do the renaming.
< map sed 's/\([^,]*\),\(.*\)/mv -- "\1.jpg" "\1-\2.jpg"/' | sh -x
(that assumes the map file doesn't contain ", $, backslash or backtick characters.
