Powershell move and rename files - powershell

Question

I need to swap the names of some files. The files are in the same location so I planned to move them to a staging ground to avoid having two files with the same name. I am attempting to identify the file, based on name parameters, move it to the staging ground and rename it.
I would like to use something similar to the following:
Get-ChildItem ".\" -Recurse | Where-Object { $_.Name -like "*XYZ*"} | Move-Item -Force -Destination "C:\new\" | Rename-Item -NewName { $_.Name -replace 'XYZ','ABC' }
The file moves, but does not rename. Am I not able to pipe the move-item to rename-item?
I would be happy to know if there is a better way to swap the file names of two files without moving, but also would like to know why the above isn't working.
Thanks!

Answer 1

By default Move-Item will not pass the current object along the pipeline.
You can use the -Passthru switch to get that functionality:
Move-Item -Force -Destination "C:\new\" -Passthru
Alternatively, you could cut out Rename-Item by having the Move-item destination be a file:
Get-ChildItem ".\" -Recurse |
Where-Object { $_.Name -like "*XYZ*"} |
Move-Item -Force -Destination "C:\new\$($_.Name -replace 'XYZ','ABC')"

Answer 2

Swapping implies two renames which only can take place with one temporary location or a temporary name.
IMO one temporary name is easier.
#Requires -Version 3.0
(Get-ChildItem ".\*XYZ*" -File -Recurse) | ForEach-Object {
$Swap = $_.Replace("XYZ","ABC")
If (Test-Path $Swap){
Rename-Item $Swap -NewName "$Swap.bak"
$_ | Rename-Item -NewName $Swap
Rename-Item "$Swap.bak" -NewName $_.FullName
} else {
$_ | Rename-Item -NewName $Swap
}
}