runofthemillgeek / vtop-renaming

Scripts for renaming to easily sort VTOP downloads.

VTOP Renaming Utilities

Contains programs and scripts for file manager tools to clean filenames of files downloaded from student portal.

Details of included scripts

AdvancedRenamer/vtop_format_date.aren — AutoRenamer script that converts date from DD-MMM-YYYY format to YYYY-MM-DD format and strips unnecessary text which allows you to sort by name in your file explorer and get the same result as if sorted by date.

WINSEM2016-17_SWE530_ETH_3523_11-APR-2017_RM001_XlsFileHandlingCSVFormat.pdf
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2017-04-11_SWE530_RM001_XlsFileHandlingCSVFormat.pdf

Checklist (prolly won't ever happen unless we both bored)

• Create a python program that can take options while renaming for numbered files, using just topic names and whole lot of other shit when I'm dead bored.
• Look for simpler tools.
• Test current scripts/programs for multiple cases.