macOS rename files using a text file with paths to them

[smoothisfast]

I need some help with this guys.

I have a text file with a long list of files that i want to rename generated by another program.

/Users/m/Desktop/Testing/Untitled-1.psd
/Users/m/Desktop/Testing/Untitled-2.psd
/Users/m/Desktop/old/Untitled-3.psd

I want to rename them by adding the word "UpdateThese" to the front of the file name.

 

[angelwatt]

NameChanger might be of help unless you're wanting to do this programatically.

 

[smoothisfast]

NameChanger might be of help unless you're wanting to do this programatically.

NameChanger won't parse my text file with the paths to the files I want to rename.

 

[balamw]

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Should be doable as a bash for loop.

For each path, rename the file to dirname+/XXX+basename

http://splike.com/wiki/Bash_Scripting_FAQ#Get_a_file.27s_basename.2C_dirname.2C_extension.2C_etc.3F

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[Peter Maurer]

Disclaimer: I'm not sure if it's okay to advertise your own products here. If it isn't, I'd be grateful if a friendly moderator just deleted this post. Moreover, I realize this is the programming board, so an existing product might not be the perfect answer, but with all that said...

Dragging paths seemed like a useful addition to our little renaming utility, so I just did a quick and (more or less) dirty implementation. Here's how it works: Drag paths from a text file (or copy & paste), then choose your renaming settings as shown in this screenshot ...

... and finally, click the checkmark button to actually rename your files.

If that's roughly what you want, smoothisfast, here's the download link.

 

[balamw]

for file in `cat ~/text.file`; do 
echo "mv $file ${file%/*}/UpdateThese${file##*/}"; 
done

Is basically what I was thinking. (remove the echo " " when done testing).

I know it could be more "elegant", but this should work. How it handles spaces in filenames will depend on if they are already escaped in the input file.

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[smoothisfast]

Disclaimer: I'm not sure if it's okay to advertise your own products here. If it isn't, I'd be grateful if a friendly moderator just deleted this post. Moreover, I realize this is the programming board, so an existing product might not be the perfect answer, but with all that said...

Dragging paths seemed like a useful addition to our little renaming utility, so I just did a quick and (more or less) dirty implementation. Here's how it works: Drag paths from a text file (or copy & paste), then choose your renaming settings as shown in this screenshot ...

... and finally, click the checkmark button to actually rename your files.

If that's roughly what you want, smoothisfast, here's the download link: Name Mangler 2.2.2 Beta

that works very well.