Related: [[../../../Asset Tiger migration project|Asset Tiger migration project]]

Used this after downloading [[./encoding barcodes to show text|barcodes I made online]] and wanting to change their file names. But I have 1000 files and did not want to do this manuall

The script has two parts - unzipping all the zip folders which had my barcodes, and then renaming all the extracted files

I did this on my windows work laptop, so this is in PowerShell

Part 1: mass unzip

# file name = AssetTiger_1
# used for unzipping all my barcode files at the same time and extracting them to a different folder
# great for when you have zip folders that are the same name with "duplicates" in parenthesis but you just care about the files themselves

# Define paths
$zipFolder = "$env:USERPROFILE\Downloads"
$extractTo = "$env:USERPROFILE\Desktop\rename-all"

# Get all .zip files starting with "barcode"
$zipFiles = Get-ChildItem -Path $zipFolder -Filter "barcode*.zip"

# Loop and extract
foreach ($zip in $zipFiles) {
    Expand-Archive -Path $zip.FullName -DestinationPath $extractTo -Force
}

Part 2: mass rename

# file name = AssetTiger_2
# used for making tags for Asset Tiger
# original files download with a "1_" precursor to all names
# this PS script renames each file without the precursor

$folderPath = "$env:USERPROFILE\Desktop\rename-all"

Get-ChildItem -Path $folderPath -File | ForEach-Object {
    if ($_ -match ".*?(PAR.*)") {
        $newName = $matches[1]
        Rename-Item -Path $_.FullName -NewName $newName
    }
}