So I found this powershell script to rename files in a dir based on the csv table. It works as long as there is only one file with the exact name in the table. Well I have multiple files matching the same name that need replacing based on the table, example: jackson_001.jpg jackson_002.jpg, ect.. and if jackson is in the table with a matching rename cell, it does not recognize. I have tried .baseline.length -4) and that does nothing. Do I have to do more than just truncate the basename?
$csv = Import-Csv "path\to\rename.csv"
# location of your files
$files = get-childitem "path\to\myimages"
foreach($item in $CSV){
foreach($file in $files){
if($item.oldName -eq $file.basename){
rename-item $file.fullname -NewName "$($item.MyNewName)_Preview_$($item.oldName)-$($item.MyNewName)$($file.extension)" -Verbose
}
}
}
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I am pretty new to PowerShell and I need some help. I have a .bat file that I want to copy as many times as there are usernames in my array and then also rename at the same time. This is because the code in the .bat file remains the same, but for it to work on the client PC it has to have the username as a prefix in the filename.
This is the code that I have tried:
$usernames = Import-Csv C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\usernames.csv
$file = Get-ChildItem -Path 'C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\generatedbat\' -Recurse
foreach ($username in $usernames)
{
ForEach-Object {Copy-Item $file.FullName ('C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\generatedbat\' + $username + $File.BaseName + ".bat")}
}
This copies everything and it kind of works but I have one problem.
Instead of having this filename: JohnR-VPNNEW_up.bat
I get this: #{Username=JohnR}-VPNNEW_up.bat
Any help? Thanks!
So you have one .bat file C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\generatedbat\VPNNEW_up.bat you want to copy to the same directory with new names taken from the usernames.csv --> Username column.
Then try
# get an array of just the UserNames column in the csv file
$usernames = (Import-Csv -Path 'C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\usernames.csv').Username
# get the file as object so you can use its properties
$originalFile = Get-Item -Path 'C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\generatedbat\VPNNEW_up.bat'
foreach ($username in $usernames) {
$targetFile = Join-Path -Path $originalFile.DirectoryName -ChildPath ('{0}-{1}' -f $username, $originalFile.Name)
$originalFile | Copy-Item -Destination $targetFile -WhatIf
}
I have added switch -WhatIf so you can first test this out. If what is displayed in the console window looks OK, then remove that -WhatIf safety switch and run the code again so the file is actually copied
I kept the code the same but instead of using a .csv file I just used a .txt file and it worked perfectly.
I am looking to batch rename part of a pdf file using a csv file. I have a csv file with two columns, name and Newname. My pdf files have a naming convention of 222222_test (for example) and are located in the C:\TEST folder. In the csv file, 222222 is in the name column and Jonathan is in the Newname column.
The folder is really going to have hundreds of pdf documents whenever I can get this to work.
$csv = Import-Csv "C:\TEST\Book1.csv"
# location of your files
$files = get-childitem "C:\TEST\*.DOCX"
foreach($item in $CSV){
foreach($file in $files){
if($item.name -eq $file.basename){
rename-item $file.fullname -NewName "$($item.newname)$($file.extension)" -Verbose
}
}
}
I am looking for a way for the 222222 (only) to be changed to Jonathan so the pdf file would be Jonathan_test. I was able to use the code when the file name is only 222222 but when the pdf is 222222_test, the code is not working.
Give this a try, remove the WhatIf if it works for your files. Else, we'll need to see some sample data from the csv.
foreach ($item in $CSV) {
foreach ($file in $files) {
if ($item.name -eq $file.basename) {
Rename-Item $file.fullname -NewName $($file.FullName -replace $item.name, $item.newname) -WhatIf
}
}
}
With hundreds of CSV rows, it pays to build up a hashtable up front that maps old names to new names.
You then only need to loop once over the file names, performing a fast hashtable lookup in each iteration.
# Initialize the hashtable.
$ht = #{}
# Fill the hashtable, with the "name" column's values as the keys,
# and the "newname" columns as the values.
Import-Csv C:\TEST\Book1.csv |
ForEach-Object {
$ht.Add($_.name, $_.newname)
}
# Loop over the files and rename them based on the hashtable
Get-ChildItem C:\TEST\*.DOCX | Rename-Item -NewName {
$prefix = ($_.BaseName -split '_')[0] # Get prefix (before "_")
$newPrefix = $ht[$prefix] # Look up the prefix in the hashtable.
if ($newPrefix) { # Replace the prefix, if a match was found.
$newPrefix + $_.Name.Substring($prefix.Length)
}
else { # No replacement - output the original name, which is a no-op.
$_.Name
}
} -WhatIf
-WhatIf previews the renaming operations; remove it to perform actual renaming.
I have many folders and inside these different files. Each folder and their children files have the same name and different extension, so in the ABC folder there are the ABC.png, ABC.prj, ABC.pgw files, in the DEF folder there are the DEF.png, DEF.prj, DEF.pgw files and so on.
With a script I have created a txt file with the list of png file names. Then I put in row 2 a new name for the name in row1, in row 4 a new name for the name in row 3, and so on.
Now I'm searching a powershell script that:
- scan all folder for the name in row 1 and replace it with name in row2
- scan all folder for the name in row 3 and replace it with name in row4 and so on
I have try with this below, but it doesn't work.
Have you some suggestions? Thank you
$0=0
$1=1
do {
$find=Get-Content C:\1\Srv\MapsName.txt | Select -Index $0
$repl=Get-Content C:\1\Srv\MapsName.txt | Select -Index $1
Get-ChildItem C:\1\newmaps -Recurse | Rename-Item -NewName { $_.name -replace $find, $repl} -verbose
$0=$0+2
$1=$1+2
}
until ($0 -eq "")
I believe there are several things wrong with your code and also the code Manuel gave you.
Although you have a list of old filenames and new filenames, you are not using that in the Get-ChildItem cmdlet, but instead try and replace all files it finds.
Using -replace uses a Regular Expression replace, that means the special character . inside the filename is regarded as Any Character, not simply a dot.
You are trying to find *.png files, but you do not add a -Filter with the Get-ChildItem cmdlet, so now it will return all filetypes.
Anyway, I have a different approach for you:
If your input file C:\1\Srv\MapsName.txt looks anything like this:
picture1.png
ABC_1.png
picture2.png
DEF_1.png
picture3.png
DEF_2.png
The following code will use that to build a lookup Hashtable so it can act on the files mentioned in the input file and leave all others unchanged.
$mapsFile = 'C:\1\Srv\2_MapsName.txt'
$searchPath = 'C:\1\NewMaps'
# Read the input file as an array of strings.
# Every even index contains the file name to search for.
# Every odd index number has the new name for that file.
$lines = Get-Content $mapsFile
# Create a hashtable to store the filename to find
# as Key, and the replacement name as Value
$lookup = #{}
for ($index = 0; $index -lt $lines.Count -1; $index += 2) {
$lookup[$lines[$index]] = $lines[$index + 1]
}
# Next, get a collection of FileInfo objects of *.png files
# If you need to get multiple extensions, remove the -Filter and add -Include '*.png','*.jpg' etc.
$files = Get-ChildItem -Path $searchPath -Filter '*.png' -File -Recurse
foreach ($file in $files) {
# If the file name can be found as Key in the $lookup Hashtable
$find = $file.Name
if ($lookup.ContainsKey($find)) {
# Rename the file with the replacement name in the Value of the lookup table
Write-Host "Renaming '$($file.FullName)' --> $($lookup[$find])"
$file | Rename-Item -NewName $lookup[$find]
}
}
Edit
If the input text file 'C:\1\Srv\MapsName.txt' does NOT contain filenames including their extension, change the final foreach loop into this:
foreach ($file in $files) {
# If the file name can be found as Key in the $lookup Hashtable
# Look for the file name without extension as it is not given in the 'MapsName.txt' file.
$find = [System.IO.Path]::GetFileNameWithoutExtension($file.Name)
if ($lookup.ContainsKey($find)) {
# Rename the file with the replacement name in the Value of the lookup table
# Make sure to add the file's extension if any.
$newName = $lookup[$find] + $file.Extension
Write-Host "Renaming '$($file.FullName)' --> '$newName'"
$file | Rename-Item -NewName $newName
}
}
Hope that helps
The problem in your snippet is that it never ends.
I tried it and it works but keeps looping forever.
I created a folder with the files a.txt, b.txt and c.txt.
And in the map.txt I have this content:
a.txt
a2.md
b.txt
b2.md
c.txt
c2.md
Running the following script I managed to rename every file to be as expected.
$0=0
$1=1
$find=Get-Content D:\map.txt | Select -Index $0
while($find) {
$find=Get-Content D:\map.txt | Select -Index $0
$repl=Get-Content D:\map.txt | Select -Index $1
if(!$find -Or !$repl) {
break;
}
Get-ChildItem D:\Files -Recurse | Rename-Item -NewName { $_.name -replace $find, $repl} -verbose
$0=$0+2
$1=$1+2
}
I have a big list of files that I need to rename. I need to somehow do this by reading the CURRENT NAME and NEW NAME from a file (currently in Excel but can obviously change to CSV or whatever).
To explain this better, some current names have account numbers and some have application numbers and some have ID number and some have names and surnames.
Using UDFs and formulas in Excel I managed to extract enough data from each filename to match it to our DB and now I have each person's ID number - I need to name the file to the ID number so we can upload it to our system and it can properly be indexed.
So I'll need PS to read the file_list.txt, then find the file based on the CURRENT NAME in the list, and rename it to the NEW NAME in the list.
I know how to bulk rename files by just assigning a standard name and sequence numbers (many such posts on this site), but have no idea how to read the names from the file.
Using a CSV with two columns for Path and NewName:
Path,NewName
"C:\folder\ABC123.txt","ID001.txt"
"C:\another_folder\RandomFile001.txt","ID002.txt"
(the column names can be anything so long as you use matching names in Powershell)
You can use a foreach loop to go through the items in the CSV and rename them:
Import-Csv "C:\folder\file_list.csv" | foreach { Rename-Item -Path $_.Path -NewName $_.NewName }
If you use the Get-ChildItem cmdlet to retrieve your files, you will find the filename within the Name property:
Get-ChildItem | Rename-Item -NewName { # use $_.Name to get the new name from your list }
You can read the file_list.txt using the Get-Content cmdlet or Import-CSV if its a CSV file.
I have been looking into this as well, but I always like to make things better.
What this short sciprt does is grabs all the file in a directory and sub-directories and renames thems.
Create global variables that can be used for all the functions.
Function Variables{
$Global:CreateListFile="F:\RemoveFiles\"
$Global:ListofFilesCSV="F:\FileList.csv"
$Global:ListofFilesCSV_NewName="F:\FileList2.csv"
$Global:RenameCSV="F:\Rename.csv"
}
Create a list of Files/Directories that we want to rename. We then let PowerShell open up Excel and allow you to edit the CSV. Once closed the script will start again.
Function CreateList{
# Create List File using .Csv
Get-ChildItem $Global:CreateListFile -Recurse | Select FullName | Export-Csv $Global:ListofFilesCSV -NoTypeInformation
#Get-Content $Global:ListofFilesCSV
}
Now with the edited List we can now setup what we want to rename the structure.
Function CreateRenameList{
$File = Import-CSV $Global:ListofFilesCSV
$File2 = Import-CSV $Global:ListofFilesCSV
$i = 0
$File | ForEach `
{
$_ | Add-Member -type NoteProperty -name NewName -value $File2[$i].FullName
$i++
}
$File | Export-CSV $Global:RenameCSV -notype
#Get-Content $Global:RenameCSV
(Start-Process EXCEL "$Global:RenameCSV" -PassThru).WaitForExit()
}
Now with the Rename list completed we can now rename the files we wanted.
Function Rename{
Import-Csv $Global:RenameCSV |
ForEach { Rename-Item -Path $_.FullName -NewName $_.NewName }
}
Call the functions
Function GOGO{
Variables
CreateList
CreateRenameList
Rename
}
GOGO
I have limited experience with Powershell doing very basic tasks by itself (such as simple renaming or moving files), but I've never created one that has the need to actually extract information from inside a file and apply that data directly to a file name.
I'd like to create a script that can reference a simple .csv or text file containing a list of unique identifiers and have it assign those to a batch of duplicated files (they all have the same contents) that share a slightly different name in the form of a 3-digit number appended as the prefix of a generic name.
For example, let's say my list of files are something like this:
001_test.txt
002_test.txt
003_test.txt
004_test.txt
005_test.txt
etc.
Then my .csv contains an alphabetical list of what I would like those to become:
Alpha.txt
Beta.txt
Charlie.txt
Delta.txt
Echo.txt
etc.
I tried looking at similar examples, but I'm failing miserably trying to tailor them to get it to do the above.
EDIT: I didn't save what I already modified, but here is the baseline script I was messing with:
$file_server = Read-Host "Enter the file server IP address"
$rootFolder = 'C:\TEMP\GPO\source\5'
Get-ChildItem -LiteralPath $rootFolder -Directory |
Where-Object { $_.Name -as [System.Guid] } |
ForEach-Object {
$directory = $_.FullName
(Get-Content "$directory\gpreport.xml") |
ForEach-Object { $_ -replace "99.999.999.999", $file_server } |
Set-Content "$directory\gpreport.xml"
# ... etc
}
I think this is to replace a string inside a file though. I need to replace the file name itself using a list from another file (that is not getting renamed), while not changing the contents of the files that are being renamed.
So you want to rename similar files with those listed in a text file. Ok, here's what you are going to need for my solution (alias listed in parenthesis): Get-Content (GC), Get-ChildItem (GCI), Where (?), Rename-Item, ForEach (%)
$NewNames = GC c:\temp\Namelist.txt #Path, including file name, to list of new names
$Name = "dog.txt" #File name without the 001_ prefix
$Path = "C:\Temp" #Path to search
$i=0
GCI $path | ?{$_.Name -match "\d{3}_$Name"}|%{Rename-Item $_.FullName $NewNames[$i];$i++}
Tested as working. That gets your list of new names and saves it as an array. Then it defines your file name, path, and sets $i to 0 as a counter. Then for each file that matches your pattern it renames it based off of item number $i in the array of new names, and then increments $i up one number and moves to the next file.
I haven't tested this, but it should be pretty close. It assumes you have a CSV with a column named FileNames and that you have at least as many names in that list as there are on disk.
$newNames = Import-Csv newfilenames.csv | Select -ExpandProperty FileNames
$existingFiles = Get-ChildItem c:\someplace
for ($i = 0; $i -lt $existingFiles.count; $i++)
{
Rename-Item -Path $existingFiles[$i].FullName -NewName $newNames[$i]
}
Basically, you create two arrays and using a basic for loop steping through the list of files on disk and pull the name from the corresponding index in the newNames array.
Does your CSV file map the identifiers to the file names?
Identifier,NewName
001,Alpha
002,Beta
If so, you'll need to look up the identifier before renaming the file:
# Define the naming convention
$Suffix = '_test'
$Extension = 'txt'
# Get the files and what to rename them to
$Files = Get-ChildItem "*$Suffix.$Extension"
$Csv = Import-Csv 'Names.csv'
# Rename the files
foreach ($File in $Files) {
$NewName = ($Csv | Where-Object { $File.Name -match '^' + $_.Identifier } | Select-Object -ExpandProperty NewName)
Rename-Item $File "$NewName.$Extension"
}
If your CSV file is just a sequential list of filenames, logicaldiagram's answer is probably more along the lines of what you're looking for.