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Note: I'm a beginner to Powershell and a bit more familiar with Bash (though still a beginner for that too).

*I have multiple PDF files and I want to rename each file based on a list of names found in an Excel/CSV (could be a text file if easier) file.

*The list begins at the A2 cell and the A1 cell has the header 'name'.

*The files are in sequential order and match the order of the list of names.

Thanks for your help!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Well yeah, you need the full name of the file. PowerShell will not automatically asumme the extension of a file.

Also that empty string error means there's a blank line somewhere in your input list, so you'll need to get rid of that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Just figured it out! Added '.pdf' in the second half of the command.

$names = cat "\path\to\names.txt"; $i=0; dir | % { ren $_ "$($names[$i]).pdf"; $i++ }

Thanks for all your help!