Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham paulgp
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/ NBERwp_rename.sh
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July 10, 2019 20:51
Shell script to automatically rename downloaded NBER WP PDFs
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| #This script searches the Downloads folder for NBER working papers (PDFs starting with "w2") and renames them in "Author - Title (NBER Year)"" format. | |
| cd ~/Downloads | |
| papers=$(find . -name "w2[0-9]*.pdf" | sed 's/^.\//\ /' | sed 's/.pdf//' | tr -d '\n') | |
| echo "$papers" | |
| for wp in $papers | |
| do | |
| curl https://www.nber.org/papers/$wp.ris > temp.txt | |
| grep 'AU' temp.txt | awk -F- '{print $2}' | awk -F, '{printf $1 ","}' > temp2.txt |