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Shell script to rename AEA journal article PDFs
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| #This script searches the Downloads folder for AEA journal articles and renames them in "Author - Title (journal Year)" format. | |
| #On Mac OS X, you can't use \| in a basic regular expression, which is what "find" uses by default. | |
| cd ~/Downloads | |
| articles=$(find . -name "[ajmp][aeipo][clpr].[0-9]*.pdf" | sed 's/^.\//\ /' | sed 's/.pdf//' | tr -d '\n') | |
| echo "$articles" | |
| for article in $articles | |
| do | |
| curl "https://www.aeaweb.org/articles/citation-export?args%5Bformat%5D=ris&args%5Bdoi%5D=10.1257%2F$article&args%5Btype%5D=ris" > temp.txt | |
| authors=$(grep 'AU' temp.txt | sed 's/^AU - \([A-Za-zÀ-ÿş]*,\ \).*$/\1/' | tr -d '\n' | sed 's/,\ $//') | |
| title=$(grep 'T1' temp.txt | sed 's/^T1 - //' | sed 's/:/ -/' | sed 's/.$//') | |
| journal=$(echo $article | sed 's/^\([a-z]*\)\..*/\1/' | sed 's/aer/AER/' | sed 's/jel/JEL/' | sed 's/jep/JEP/' | sed 's/app/AEJA/' | sed 's/pol/AEJEP/' | sed 's/mic/AEJ Micro/' | sed 's/mac/AEJ Macro/') | |
| year=$(grep 'PY' temp.txt | awk -F- '{print $2}' | sed 's/.$//') | |
| newname="$authors - $title ($journal$year).pdf" | |
| if [ "$(echo $newname | wc -c)" -ge 15 ]; then mv $article.pdf "$newname" ; fi | |
| rm temp.txt | |
| done |
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