Bash script to rename project gutenberg ebooks to their document titles.

rename_gutenberg.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Bash script to pull document titles from
# Project Gutenberg ebooks.
# Invoke using command like:
# find ./ -type f -name "*.txt" | xargs -n 1 ./process.sh ~/Documents/

# pull the first line of the file
FIRST_LINE=`head -n 1 $2`

# find the title
TITLE=${FIRST_LINE#"The Project Gutenberg Etext of "}
TITLE=${TITLE#"The Project Gutenberg EBook of "}
TITLE=${TITLE#"The Project Gutenberg ebook "}
TITLE=${TITLE#"The Project Gutenberg eBook, "}
TITLE=${TITLE#"Project Gutenberg's "}
TITLE=${TITLE#"Project Gutenberg Etext "}
TITLE=${TITLE#"The Project Gutenberg Etext, "}
TITLE=${TITLE#"Project Gutenberg Etext, "}

# standardize the title
STANDARD=${TITLE// /-}
STANDARD=${STANDARD%?}
NEWFILE=$STANDARD".txt"

# cp the file to the new filename
cp $2 $NEWFILE
mv $NEWFILE $1

# exit 0
exit 0