You have the old name and new name in two columns in a file. I will call the file "names.txt". Here is the script that will rename all of them in a batch.

var string names ; cat "names.txt" > $names
while ($names <> "")
do
    var str line ; lex "1" $names > $line
    var str oldname, newname ; wex "1" $line > $oldname ; wex "1" $line > $newname
    system rename ("\""+$oldname+"\"") ("\""+$newname+"\"")
done

script rename.txt

Alan:

How are the two columns (oldname, newname) in the list file separated ? By tabs ? Commas ? (If your file names have spaces, the two columns can NOT be separated by spaces.) The script is using the wex command to extract the columns, The $wsep is the variable that contains all possible separators.

If your columns are separated by tabs, add the following one line at the very beginning of the script.
set $wsep = "\t"

If your columns are separated by commas, add the following one line at the very beginning of the script.
set $wsep = ","

That should take care of it.

Feel free to email me further questions.
Sen

Hi Bookworm:

Your old file names and new file names are specified without path. So, for biterscripting to find them, biterscripting has to be in the same folder where the old files are. For example, if your old files are all in one folder C:\Folder, add the following command at the top of the rename script.

cd "C:\Folder"


Then the script should work correctly. If the old files are not all in one folder, you would specify the old files with full paths.

Sen