Renaming software with txt script

[remunramu]

I have 2000 folders with the data inside, inside each folder there is a text file contain the main info like name, year, city, etc.
So I was wondering, I would like to rename those 2000 folders based on the txt inside to [year]-city-name to make my work easier. The original folder names are just sequential number 3101 and so on
Can anyone help me with it?

 

[DrCR]

This may not be the hand holding you're looking for, but here's a quick example in Bash of how you can take a match and apply it to a name. What I'm doing here is taking .flac files on my NAS (that's my pwd when running the below) and transcoding them to mp3 onto my mp3 player.

for file in *.flac; do flac -cd "$file" | lame -q 0 -V0 - "/media/Cowan/Music/An Awesome CD/${file%.flac}.mp3"; done

 

[W1zzard]

I suspect OP is on Windows, so probably doesn't have access to bash

 

[Operandi]

I suspect OP is on Windows, so probably doesn't have access to bash

WSL could make that work? Otherwise I'm sure you could do with Powershell, don't ask me how though cause I'm clueless with it.

 

[remunramu]

NVM guys. I did them manually with my fingers. My left pinky and index fingers were sore with that thousands CTRL C+V.
Told the survey guys to rename the folders like that so I don't have to do this anymore with the next batch.

 

[Aiden_]

Definitely too late now, but if this happens again, maybe try a Python script - would probably take 10-15 mins to get something working and then minutes for it to get the job done.

 

[DrCR]

@remunramu I'm not sure where you're at in your career or if you're even in the IT world, but it would be worth investing even a modicum of time into python/powershell/bash/whatever. Not giving you grief, and as posted above also not willing to code for you, but hopefully this is positive peer pressure to somewhat familiarize yourself with a bit of scripting.