I have a script which fetches bib entries for pdfs, and then renames it to my prefered format (names of author (no more than 2) - name of paper).
in case you are interested
#!/usr/bin/env sh
newnamefn(){
bib="$(pdf2bib "$1")"
name="$(echo "$bib" | grep "title = " | cut -d'{' -f 2 | cut -d'{' -f 1 )"
authors=$(echo "$bib" | grep "author = " | cut -d'{' -f 2 | cut -d'{' -f 1 | sed -z 's/\ and\ /\n/g' | head -n 2 | tr '\n' ' ')
echo "$authors-$name" | detox --inline
}
for i in "$@" ; do
newname="$(newnamefn "$i")"
mv "$i" "${i%/*}/$newname".pdf
done
detox --inline is just a utility which makes the file names shell friendly (removes special characters and spaces), but that is optional. Also, technically the newnamefn
is what does all of the job, and below is just a loop to iterate on all files that are given as input like script file1 "file2" file3
, where file2 had some special characters, so enclosed in ""
quotes. you can also translate it to python, then you would not even require sed and grep (you can just get output in json-esque format). I have a small keybinding in my file manager, which renames all selected files, so I do not have to spend any amount of my mind
you can make it work in any os (maybe use some llm for it), you just have to install pdf2bib
this is regardless of that. The meme explains it a bit wierdly, but we start with 17 squares, and try to find most efficient packing, and outer square’s size is determined by this packing.