I have a bunch of file which I like to copy or duplicate in the same folder but renaming part of the filename during the copying...
Ex.
Copying these files
¸Ó¸®30_³²_0.pal
¸Ó¸®30_³²_1.pal
¸Ó¸®30_³²_2.pal
¸Ó¸®30_³²_3.pal
¸Ó¸®30_³²_10.pal
¸Ó¸®30_³²_11.pal
¸Ó¸®30_³²_12.pal
But must be renamed to these
¸Ó¸®31_³²_0.pal
¸Ó¸®31_³²_1.pal
¸Ó¸®31_³²_2.pal
¸Ó¸®31_³²_3.pal
¸Ó¸®31_³²_10.pal
¸Ó¸®31_³²_11.pal
¸Ó¸®31_³²_12.pal
Also I want an input of what to copy and what it will be renamed to...
I only need to input 30_ for the files to copy then input 31_ or 41_ for the copied files..
If it's not possible for input.. I can do with hard coded value...
Update:
I found a code that copies and renames the files..
Get-ChildItem '*30_*.pal' -recurs | % {
$copyto = $_.FullName -replace "30_","41_"
Copy-Item $_.FullName $copyto
}
The input is what's missing now.. and I don't know how to do it...
This should replace the each file if your get-childitem is working properly
Get-ChildItem '*30_*.pal' -Recurse |% {$_.Replace('30','31')}
Ranadip Dutta's answer is good, but the replace might give issues if the second set of numbers ever contains a 30...for example, if there are more files in the group and you have one:
¸Ó¸®30_³²_30.pal
It would get renamed to:
¸Ó¸®31_³²_31.pal
In order to avoid this, use more identifying characters in the Replace to be sure that you are replacing the number in the correct location in the file, like this:
Get-ChildItem '*30_*.pal' -Recurse |% {$_.Replace('®30','®31')}
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I’m attempting to rename a bunch of files that are located in multiple folders. The filenames are not unique because they live in multiple directories. Hence, I'd like to fetch all specific files based on their path and then use the Rename-Item cmdlet to make them unique.
I'm using the Import-Csv cmdlet because I have the Paths and New File Names in a text file (headers are oldPath and NewFileName respectively).
I've got this so far:
$documentList = #(Import-Csv -Path 'C:\Users\Desktop\testFolder\fileWithPathAndNewFileName.txt')
$Paths = (ForEach-Object {
(Gci -Path $documentList.oldPath)
})
$Paths | ForEach-Object {Rename-Item -Path $_.FullName -NewName "$($documentlist.newFileName)"}
Unfortunately, this isn't really working, but feels like it's almost there. I think where I'm screwing up is the -NewName parameter. I'm just not sure how to populate the NewFileName object from my text file correctly. Any help would be much appreciated. I apologize in advance if this seems somewhat trivial, I unfortunately haven't been consistent with my Powershell.
Your code is a little confused. ;-) ... if you have CSV file you should name it *.csv.
If I got you right this should be enough actually:
$documentList = Import-Csv -Path 'C:\Users\Desktop\testFolder\fileWithPathAndNewFileName.txt'
foreach ($document in $documentList) {
Rename-Item -Path $document.oldPath -NewName $document.NewFileName
}
You iterate over each row in your CSV file and use the value in the cells as input for the Rename-Item cmdlet. You need to have the complete path including filename to the file in the column "oldPath" and the NewName in the column "NewName"
I have 1000 PDFs in a folder C:\Users\1003911\Desktop\pdf.
File names are something like 38852ad-Layout1, 38852s-Layout-1, and so on.
I need to remove "-Layout1" from all the PDFs.
I tried few options from this site, but I cannot get it right. Anyone can give me exact code what I should write?
My code is:
Get-ChildItem 'C:\Users\1003911\Desktop\pdf' |
Rename-Item -NewName { $_.Name.Substring(0, $_.Name.Length-12) }
I used this to rename and it worked, but the .pdf extension is removed. How do I retain it?
You got the right idea. I personally think it's easier to use $_.basename and put it in a sub-expression and tack on the .pdf at the end.
Get-ChildItem C:\Users\1003911\Desktop\pdf | rename-item -newname {"$($_.basename.Replace('-layout1','')).pdf"}
also note, I used [string] replace method instead to remove the "-layout1"
Hope this helps :)
Other version of Ricc solution:
Get-ChildItem "C:\Users\1003911\Desktop\pdf" -file -filter "*.pdf" | rename-item -NewName {$_.Name.Replace('-layout1','')}
This version :
Take only file, not directory
Filter on pdf only
Rename Name and not BaseName + concatenation
I'm trying to teach myself enough powershell or batch programming to figure out to achieve the following (I've had a search and looked through a couple hours of Youtube tutorials but can't quite piece it all together to figure out what I need - I don't get Tokens, for example, but they seem necessary in the For loop). Also, not sure if the below is best achieved by robocopy or xcopy.
Task:
Define a list of files to retrieve in a csv (file name will be listed as a 13 digit number, extension will be UNKNOWN, but will usually be .jpg but might occasionally be .png - could this be achieved with a wildcard?)
list would read something like:
9780761189931
9780761189988
9781579657159
For each line in this text file, do:
Search a network folder and all subfolders
If exact filename is found, copy to an arbitrary target (say a new folder created on desktop)
(Not 100% necessary, but nice to have) Once the For loop has completed, output a list of files copied into a text file in the newly created destination folder
I gather that I'll maybe need to do a couple of things first, like define variables for the source and destination folders? I found the below elsewhere but couldn't quite get my head around it.
set src_folder=O:\2017\By_Month\Covers
set dst_folder=c:\Users\%USERNAME&\Desktop\GetCovers
for /f "tokens=*" %%i in (ISBN.txt) DO (
xcopy /K "%src_folder%\%%i" "%dst_folder%"
)
Thanks in advance!
This solution is in powershell, by the way.
To get all subfiles of a folder, use Get-ChildItem and the pipeline, and you can then compare the name to the insides of your CSV (which you can get using import-CSV, by the way).
Get-ChildItem -path $src_folder -recurse | foreach{$_.fullname}
I'd personally then use a function to edit the name as a string, but I know this probably isn't the best way to do it. Create a function outside of the pipeline, and have it return a modified path in such a way that you can continue the previous line like this:
Get-ChildItem -path $src_folder -recurse | foreach{$_.CopyTo (edit-path $_.fullname)}
Where "edit-directory" is your function that takes in the path, and modifies it to return your destination path. Also, you can alternatively use robocopy or xcopy instead of CopyTo, but Copy-Item is a powershell native and doesn't require much string manipulation (which in my experience, the less, the better).
Edit: Here's a function that could do the trick:
function edit-path{
Param([string] $path)
$modified_path = $dst_folder + "\"
$modified_path = $path.substring($src_folder.length)
return $modified_path
}
Edit: Here's how to integrate the importing from CSV, so that the copy only happens to files that are written in the CSV (which I had left out, oops):
$csv = import-csv $CSV_path
Get-ChildItem -path $src_folder -recurse | where-object{$csv -contains $_.name} | foreach{$_.CopyTo (edit-path $_.fullname)}
Note that you have to put the whole CSV path in the $CSV_path variable, and depending on how the contents of that file are written, you may have to use $_.fullname, or other parameters.
This seems like an average enough problem:
$Arr = Import-CSV -Path $CSVPath
Get-ChildItem -Path $Folder -Recurse |
Where-Object -FilterScript { $Arr -contains $PSItem.Name.Substring(0,($PSItem.Length - 4)) } |
ForEach-Object -Process {
Copy-Item -Destination $env:UserProfile\Desktop
$PSItem.Name | Out-File -FilePath $env:UserProfile\Desktop\Results.txt -Append
}
I'm not great with string manipulation so the string bit is a bit confusing, but here's everything spelled out.
I know this question was already asked by someone but I will ask again.
Can someone tell me how to rename in bulk and in ascending order if possible in CMD. I already tried renaming in powershell but to no avail. It only let me use once and I need to rename another folder files but to no avail. It didn't let it rename files in another folder. This is the code I use in powershell:
$i = 1
Get-ChildItem *.mkv | %{Rename-Item $_ -NewName ('Haikyuu - {0:D2}.mkv' -f $i++)}
I'm renaming my anime series per folder and some of my copies have 100+ videos. and somehow you could teach me what each code mean (the code that must use in CMD). The ones I've searched can't understand it in layman's term or doesn't tell the user how it's supposed to work. Thank you in advance. by the way, the folder is placed in an external drive.
so from the beginning:
$i= variable for storing the initial value 1
Get-ChildItem = is like "dir" which lists the files and folder under a certain path.
In this case, it is listing all the files which starts with anything but have the extension .mkv
* indicates wildcard.
| = pipeline which passes the output of the first command as an input of the next command.
% = ForEach-Object is iterating each object one by one coming from the pipeline.
$_= Current pipeline object . Here it is taking each object one by one and renaming it using Rename-Item
-NewName = is the parameter of the Rename-Item which asks for the new name to pass.
Hope it clarifies your need.
The reason why I can't rename my video files is there were [brackets] on the filename.
So I use this:
Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Include *.mkv | Rename-Item -NewName { $_.Name.replace("[","").replace("]","").replace("(","").replace(")","") }
Which on the same directories, I can access subfolders too to omit brackets and parethesis. then I proceed using the code above in the question to rename my files in every folder. The Reason why I'm doing the 'renaming' per folder is that, each folder is different anime series. but the code above is working.
if anyone can give me less code than repeating the 'replace' and concatenating it, I will gladly accept and choose that as the best answer. :)
If you use the parameter -LiteralPath for the source, no prior renaming is necessary.
%i = 1
Get-ChildItem *.mkv |
ForEach {Rename-Item -LiteralPath "$_" -NewName ('Haikyuu - {0:D2}.mkv' -f $i++)}
A hint on sorting, I hope the present numbering of the source files has a constant width, otherwise the result is mixed up as an alphabetic sort (which is inherent to ntfs formatted drives) will sort the number 10 in front of 2.
To check this append the parameter -whatif to the Rename-Item command
I have been asked to move around 200 folders to a new server, but I'm not sure how to script it, or if it is possible.
I have a duplicate folder structure at the destination, but the problem is I have to move only 1 subfolder and its contents in each of the parent folders across. Looks like this:
FolderA
Folder1
Folder2
FolderB
Folder1
Folder2
Is it possible to move only 'Folder1' from Folders a-z and place 'Folder1' in its corresponding new parent folder?
I'd use Robocopy, particularly if you want to preserve the ownership and permissions.
I would be very tempted to use RoboCopy to do the copying, because you can set it to bring over the original file created and modified dates and times, and security permissions.
Although it can't do the Folder1 thing natively. So I would be looking at using PowerShell to generate a batch file of RoboCopy commands, then running that. e.g. something that looks like this, although I haven't tested it.
$sourceFolder = "\\server1\share"
$destFolder = "\\server2\share"
foreach ($folder in (Get-ChildItem -Directory $sourceFolder)) {
"robocopy `"$($sourceFolder)\$($folder)\Folder1`" `"$($destFolder)\$($folder)\Folder1`" /E /COPYALL /DCOPY:T" | Out-File roboscript.bat -Append
}
Then check over, and run roboscript.bat to do the copying.
More a comment on TessellatingHeckler's code than an answer here. Please give any credit to him that you would attribute to this since he had the answer first.
Since you are working with outputting strings to a text file you probably want to work with strings. In regards to your ForEach I would like to suggest:
foreach ($folder in (Get-ChildItem -Directory $sourceFolder | Select -ExpandProperty FullName)) {
$TargetFolder = $Folder -replace [regex]::Escape($sourceFolder), "$destFolder"
"robocopy `"$Folder\Folder1`" `"$TargetFolder\Folder1`" /E /COPYALL /DCOPY:T" | Out-File roboscript.bat -Append
}
That selects the full path for the folder in question as a part of the ForEach. Then it declares a variable as the target in which it replaces the source path with the destination path (source is escaped since this is a RegEx match). This likely makes it more flexible.
Also, you don't need to make subexpressions this way since it's just a string that you're referencing and not a [FileInfo] object.
Lastly, I thought I'd add that you can use two consecutive double quotes instead of escaping them if you prefer, though I would suggest escaping them as TH suggested.