Appreciate sharing of the PowerShell script to the solution that allows to export attachments from Jira

current Dir. path is: C:\Jira
matched file path is: \Jira\Files\CMP\10000\CMP-1065\
matched file name is: 29764
Found row and ran command: ren 29764 “ScreenShot.jpg”
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current Dir. path is: C:\Jira
matched file path is: \\Jira\Files\CMP\10000\CMP-1065\
matched file name is: 29765
Found row and ran command: ren 29765 “ScreenShot_2.jpg”
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current Dir. path is: C:\Jira
matched file path is: \Jira\Files\CMP\10000\CMP-1068\
matched file name is: 29718
Found row and ran command: ren 29718 “ScreenShot_3.jpg”
The syntax of the command is incorrect.

If I stopped it the cmd prompt was in the correct directory and if I ran it again it would work for the next folder, I messed with it for awhile but could not get it to work. I gave up and converted it to a PowerShell script. I am sure there is a better way to do it, but the below worked for me.

$mainDirectory = “C:\Jira”
$filesToRename = “C:\Jira\Files”
$renameCmdList = “C:\Jira\NewnamesPS.txt”
# Get the file with all of the rename commands
$commands = Get-Content -Path $renameCmdList
# Cycle through each line of the file
foreach ($command in $commands) {
# Find the generic filename from the line by extracting the data after the .\
$filename = [regex]::Match($command, “\d+”).Value
# Display the filename
Write-Host “Filename:” $filename
# Search for the file in the filesToRename directory
$file = Get-Childitem -Path $filesToRename -Recurse | Where-Object { $_.Name -eq $filename }
# If the file is found, set the found directory as current and execute the line from the renameCmdList file
if ($file) {
Set-Location (Split-Path -Path $file.Fullname -Parent)
Write-Host “Current Path” $PWD.Path
Write-Host “Final:” $command
Invoke-Expression $command
# If the file is not found, report to console
} else {
Write-Host “Not Found”
}
}

The renameCmdList names file needs to be setup with the Powershell commands instead of the CMD ones like so:

Rename-Item -Path .\72633 -NewName “screenshot-1.png”

hi, how did you do that?

Thanks for that enhancement Grayson

REM run this by typing ‘{BATCH_FILE_withFullFilepath} > log.txt 2>&1’ into command line, which saves console output to the ‘log.txt’ file

REM this code is based on https://isbyr.com/how-to-export-attachments-from-jira-ondemand, but has been modified to keep attachments in their ticket’s sub-folder:
REM 1. Follow instructions to “Create backup for server” from a Jira Cloud instance, see https://support.atlassian.com/jira-cloud-administration/docs/export-issues/
REM 2. Extract the jira-export.zip file
REM 3. Follow steps in the article for “Extracting attachments’ file names”… use the same account that’ll run this script to avoid permission issues

REM this code will iterate through all the folders and change the file names from their unmarked file type and numeric filename to the correct name and file type.
REM this code assumes the following file structure which is standard for the Atlassian Jira Cloud backup for server zip file
REM ├──|attachments\
REM ├──{JIRAPROJECTKEY}\
REM ├──{10000_Grouping}
REM ├──{JIRA-TICKET-ID}
REM ├──{JIRA-TICKET-ID}
REM └──{JIRA-TICKET-ID}
REM └──{20000_Grouping}
REM ├──{JIRA-TICKET-ID}
REM ├──{JIRA-TICKET-ID}
REM └──{JIRA-TICKET-ID}
REM └──{JIRAPROJECTKEY}\

REM set the file paths you’ll need for everything
set mainDirectory={top-level-folder-with-extracted-zip-file}
set filesToRename={attachments-folder-inside-extracted-zip}
set renameCmdList={FilePath-of-text-file-with-ren-commands}

REM run this command to ensure the script starts in the right directory
cd /D %mainDirectory%

REM first, we’ll recurrsively loop through the folder and look for files
for /R %filesToRename% %%G in (*) do (
REM for every found file, search through the renameCmdList.txt file for the matching row…
REM the spaces in the search string ensure you get an exact match… e.g. to avoid 1001 matching with 10011…
REM then the output of the find (the matching row’s rename command) is pulled out and ran
REM the skip=2 skips the first line returned by the find which is just a header row with the folder path
REM the delims=” changes the delimiter from a space to a newline, since we want the whole line captured in one variable
REM if the file name is in the txt file, then this code will run
for /f “skip=2 delims=” %%Q in (‘find ” %%~nG ” %renameCmdList%’) do (
REM you need to cd into the right folder of the file b/c the commands in the txt file don’t have the full path
REM the ~p inside the %%G variable returns just the file’s path… the ~n returns just the file’s name
cd %%~pG

REM echo for troubleshooting
echo current Dir. path is: %CD%
echo matched file path is: %%~pG
echo matched file name is: %%~nG
echo Found row and ran command: %%Q

REM the find returns the full line the match was found on, which is itself a command, e.g. ‘ren 10532 “image001.jpg”‘
%%Q
)

REM add a blank line to keep the console/log legible
echo.

REM you can uncomment this pause for debugging
REM pause
)

REM move back to the mainDirectory where we started, just to keep it clean
cd %mainDirectory%

Read https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/regex/groups.html to understand the capture groups and backreferences used in the regex equation in this article

Is there any content after the line numbers? as I can’t see anything in the comment?

Here are some lines:

Line 1947683:
Line 1947684:
Line 1947685:

Hi,
I am facing same issue for Find and Replace.

Line is :

Line 1947698:

Can you please help?