I would like to ask help for the lastwritetime need to change if its multiple files having the same time stamp.
I am using below query to fetch and rename the file name with my predefined $prefix+$lastwritetime, suppose if multiple files having same timestamp means I am unable to rename the files, hence the first file is rename with Lastwritetime in that situation I need to change my Lastwritetimes seconds so that files will be created.
Thanks for your kind help.
$FilePath = $ToPath+"\"+$ToFile
Get-ChildItem -Path $FilePath | Foreach { Rename-Item $_ -NewName ($Prefix+$_.LastWriteTime.ToString("yyMMddhhmm")) }
suppose Lastwritetime is 20190619082733 for two files i need it as 20190619082734 + or - is fine. I have tried with AddMinutes(-"2") but something i am missing kindly advise.
Try addminutes(-2). It takes an int and not a string. Something like:
Get-ChildItem -Path $FilePath | Foreach-Object {
$DateString = $_.LastWriteTime.AddMinutes(-2).ToString("yyMMddhhmm")
Rename-Item $_.FullName -NewName ($Prefix + $DateString + $_.Extension)
}
If you want your string to include seconds, you should format it like this:
$DateString = $_.LastWriteTime.AddMinutes(-2).ToString("yyMMddhhmmss")
Related
I just wanted to re-number my music files based on their date creation on windows 10 and I found this PowerShell script on the internet.
[ref]$i = 1; gci -file | Rename-Item -NewName {'{0:D} - {1}' -f $i.Value++, $_}
but this code didn't do that.
After that, I used the below code but unfortunately, my file names were broken and converted to numbers! see the code and image below
$count = 1; Get-ChildItem -File | Sort-Object LastWriteTime | Rename-Item -NewName { '{0:D {1}' -f $script:count++, $_.Extension }
So now I want to first rename my files to their default name and after that, I would like to re-number them by their date of creation. For example, if assuming my latest song is "song1.mp3" it should turn to "1 - song1.mp3".
Tnx a lot.
is there a way to bulk rename items such that a folder with the items arranged in order would have their name changed into numbers with zero padding regardless of extension?
for example, a folder with files named:
file1.jpg
file2.jpg
file3.jpg
file4.png
file5.png
file6.png
file7.png
file8.jpg
file9.jpg
file10.mp4
would end up like this:
01.jpg
02.jpg
03.jpg
04.png
05.png
06.png
07.png
08.jpg
09.jpg
10.mp4
i had a script i found somewhere that can rename files in alphabetical order. however, it seems to only accepts conventionally bulk renamed files (done by selecting all the files, and renaming them such that they read "file (1).jpg" etc), which messes up the ordering when dealing with differing file extensions. it also doesn't seem to rename files with variations in their file names. here is what the code looked like:
Get-ChildItem -Path C:\Directory -Filter file* | % {
$matched = $_.BaseName -match "\((?<number>\d+)\)"
if (-not $matched) {break;}
[int]$number = $Matches["number"]
Rename-Item -Path $_.FullName -NewName "$($number.ToString("000"))$($_.Extension)"
}
If your intent is to rename the files based on the ending digits of their BaseName you can use Get-ChildItem in combination with Where-Object for filtering them and then pipe this result to Rename-Item using a delay-bind script block.
Needles to say, this code does not handle file collision. If there is more than one file with the same ending digits and the same extension this will error out.
Get-ChildItem -Filter file* | Where-Object { $_.BaseName -match '\d+$' } |
Rename-Item -NewName {
$basename = '{0:00}' -f [int][regex]::Match($_.BaseName, '\d+$').Value
$basename + $_.Extension
}
To test the code you can use the following:
#'
file1.jpg
file2.jpg
file3.jpg
file4.png
file5.png
file6.png
file7.png
file8.jpg
file9.jpg
file10.mp4
'# -split '\r?\n' -as [System.IO.FileInfo[]] | ForEach-Object {
$basename = '{0:00}' -f [int][regex]::Match($_.BaseName, '\d+$').Value
$basename + $_.Extension
}
You could just use the number of files found in the folder to create the appropriate 'numbering' format for renaming them.
$files = (Get-ChildItem -Path 'D:\Test' -File) | Sort-Object Name
# depending on the number of files, create a formating template
# to get the number of leading zeros correct.
# example: 645 files would create this format: '{0:000}{1}'
$format = '{0:' + '0' * ($files.Count).ToString().Length + '}{1}'
# a counter for the index number
$index = 1
# now loop over the files and rename them
foreach ($file in $files) {
$file | Rename-Item -NewName ($format -f $index++, $file.Extension) -WhatIf
}
The -WhatIf switch is a safety measure. With this, no file gets actually renamed, you will only see in the console what WOULD happen. Once you are content with that, remove the -WhatIf switch from the code and run again to rename all your files in the folder
I have a folder called files which has a path like : C:\users\xxxx\desktop\files
Inside this folder are different folders: 2015-12-02, 2015-12-01, 2015-11-30, etc
Inside each folder there are multiple files. I was looking to append the folder date at the end of each file inside the folder. I have written the below script for that:
function checkfile($file) {
$filenm = $file.FullName
return($filenm.Contains('.txt'))
}
function renamefile($file) {
$filenm = $file.Name
$ip = $file.FullName.Substring(34)
$ip1 = $ip.Substring(1,4) + $ip.Substring(6,2) + $ip.Substring(9,2)
$txt = $filenm.Split(".")[1] + "_" + $file.name.Split(".")[3] + "_" + $file.name.Split(".")[4] + "." + $file.name.Split(".")[2] + "." + $ip1
Rename-Item $file.FullName -NewName $txt
}
$sourcepath = "C:\users\xxxx\desktop\files"
$inputfiles = (Get-ChildItem -Path $sourcepath -Recurse) | Where-Object { checkfile $_ }
foreach ($inputfile in $inputfiles) {
renamefile $inputfiles
}
The problem I'm facing is in the above script I have used substring(34) to extract the date from the file path. If for some reason the source path changes (to say : H:\powershell\scripts\files) then 34 will not work.
How can I extract the correct date from the file path irrespective of the full file path?
Why not:
$sourcepath = "C:\users\xxxx\desktop\files"
Get-ChildItem -Path $sourcepath -Include "*.txt" -Recurse | % {
Rename-Item $_ "$($_.BaseName)_$($_.Directory)$($_.Extension)"
}
BaseName is the file name without the extension
Directory is the directory name (your date)
Extension is the file extension (i.e. .txt)
$(...) is used to make sure ... is evaluated properly
% is an alias for ForEach-Object and will iterate over the objects coming from the pipeline.
$_ will hold the current object in the ForEach loop
Here, your checkfile function is replaced by -Include "*.txt".
Example :
C:\users\xxxx\desktop\files\2015-12-02\sample.txt
becomes
C:\users\xxxx\desktop\files\2015-12-02\sample_2015-12-02.txt
Not sure if you need it, but if you want to remove the dashes from the date, you could use:
Rename-Item $_ "$($_.BaseName)_$($_.Directory -replace '-','')$($_.Extension)"
EDIT : OP wished to remove the dashes but append the date after the file extension, so:
$sourcepath = "C:\users\xxxx\desktop\files"
Get-ChildItem -Path $sourcepath -Include "*.txt" -Recurse | % {
Rename-Item $_ "$($_.Name).$($_.Directory.Name -replace '-', '')"
}
The particulars of the problem aren't entirely clear. I gather that the date your are interested in is in the fullpath. You want to extract the date from the path and rename the file, such that the new filename includes that date at the end.
However your script implies that there are at least five periods in the path. But I don't see that mentioned in the OP anywhere.
So there are a few problems and open items I see:
1. What is the syntax of a full path? That includes the five or more periods
2. Will the date always be at the same directory depth? I'm guessing xxxx represents the date. If so the date is the second subdirectory. Will the date always be in the second subdirectory?
3. Related to #2, will there ever be paths that include two or more dates?
Assuming my guesses are correct AND that the date will always be the second subdirectory, then extracting the date would be:
`$dateString = $file.fullpath.split('\')[3]
If some of my guesses are incorrect then please add details to the OP. If #3 is true then you'll need to also explain how to know which date is the correct date to use.
An option that you could do is just cd to each path. Then use Get-ChildItem in each dir, without using -Recurse.
In rename $ip would just be $file, no need for FullName.
For example, define your functions and then:
$sourcefile = 'Whateversourcediris'
cd $sourcefile
$directories = (Get-ChildItem)
foreach ($direct in $directories) {
cd $direct
$inputfiles = (Get-ChildItem)|where-object{checkfile $_}
foreach ($inputfile in $inputfiles) {
renamefile $inputfile
}
cd..
}
Hope this helps.
Below is a full path to some files that have a specific file pattern I'm looking for. The files are not all located in the same location, however, I would like to change the ".gen" to ".tmp" for a short period of time while still maintaining ".gen" in its entirety.
D:\Example\CommonData\Settings\ConnectionSettings.config.gen
D:\Example\CommonData\Settings\FileExtensions.config.gen
D:\Example\WebApps\Website\Web.config.gen
D:\Example\Test\SCM\Config.Files\Some.Other.thing.config.gen
What I would like to do:
D:\Example\CommonData\Settings\ConnectionSettings.config.gen
D:\Example\CommonData\Settings\ConnectionSettings.config.tmp
D:\Example\CommonData\Settings\FileExtensions.config.gen
D:\Example\CommonData\Settings\FileExtensions.config.tmp
D:\Example\WebApps\Website\Web.config.gen
D:\Example\WebApps\Website\Web.config.tmp
D:\Example\Test\SCM\Config.Files\Some.Other.thing.config.gen
D:\Example\Test\SCM\Config.Files\Some.Other.thing.config.tmp
I've tried so far:
Get-ChildItem *.config.gen | ForEach {
$NewName = $_.Name -replace ".config.gen$", ".config.tmp"
Copy-Item $_ $NewName
}
Is what I'm trying to do more easier to do with xcopy or robocopy versus Copy-Item? If so, how would I go about using something other than Copy-Item.
Since you want the destination items renamed Get-ChildItem/Copy-Item is the better approach here. Something like this should work:
Get-ChildItem *.config.gen -Recurse |
Copy-Item -Destination { Join-Path $_.Directory ($_.BaseName + '.tmp') }
I would really appreciate your help with this
I should first mention that I have been unable to find any specific solutions and I am very new to programming with powershell, hence my request
I wish to write (and later schedule) a script in powershell that looks for a file with a specific name - RFUNNEL and then renames this to R0000001. There will only be one of such 'RFUNELL' files in the folder at any time. However when next the script is run and finds a new RFUNNEL file I will this to be renamed to R0000002 and so on and so forth
I have struggled with this for some weeks now and the seemingly similar solutions that I have come across have not been of much help - perhaps because of my admittedly limited experience with powershell.
Others might be able to do this with less syntax, but try this:
$rootpath = "C:\derp"
if (Test-Path "$rootpath\RFUNNEL.txt")
{ $maxfile = Get-ChildItem $rootpath | ?{$_.BaseName -like "R[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]"} | Sort BaseName -Descending | Select -First 1 -Expand BaseName;
if (!$maxfile) { $maxfile = "R0000000" }
[int32]$filenumberint = $maxfile.substring(1); $filenumberint++
[string]$filenumberstring = ($filenumberint).ToString("0000000");
[string]$newName = ("R" + $filenumberstring + ".txt");
Rename-Item "$rootpath\RFUNNEL.txt" $newName;
}
Here's an alternative using regex:
[cmdletbinding()]
param()
$triggerFile = "RFUNNEL.txt"
$searchPattern = "R*.txt"
$nextAvailable = 0
# If the trigger file exists
if (Test-Path -Path $triggerFile)
{
# Get a list of files matching search pattern
$files = Get-ChildItem "$searchPattern" -exclude "$triggerFile"
if ($files)
{
# store the filenames in a simple array
$files = $files | select -expandProperty Name
$files | Write-Verbose
# Get next available file by carrying out a
# regex replace to extract the numeric part of the file and get the maximum number
$nextAvailable = ($files -replace '([a-z])(.*).txt', '$2' | measure-object -max).Maximum
}
# Add one to either the max or zero
$nextAvailable++
# Format the resulting string with leading zeros
$nextAvailableFileName = 'R{0:000000#}.txt' -f $nextAvailable
Write-Verbose "Next Available File: $nextAvailableFileName"
# rename the file
Rename-Item -Path $triggerFile -NewName $nextAvailableFileName
}