Hello experts,

our teachers take pictures of students at the beginning of the year. They probably name the fotos like firstname_name.jpg or maybe name.firstname.jpg. Different separators are thinkable: _ or - or .

I want to rename all the fotos in a bulk operation to the windows usernames. This usernames looks like this:

Simpso.Bartho.123456

in general: <6 characters_of_firstname>.<6 characters_of_surname>.
 
All usernames are available in a csv-file. Even the firstnames and surnames are availabe in that flatfile.

So the script has to read the fotos one by one, then do a kind of vlookup in csv and replace the name of the fotos.

Is that possible with ps?

muchas gracias
ziege

Can you give us an sample of what the CSV looks like?

Sounds pretty easy to do. All you would need to do is setup a hashtable and then rename accordingly as you loop through the image files.