I'm looking to move and rename a .csv file from one folder to another using PowerShell on a daily basis. The .csv file will have a different file name each day but will always be similar to 'Course Completion_123456_1.csv'
I'm new to Powershell and can work out how to move and rename a file with a known name using the following code;
Move-Item c:\folder1\Course Completion_123456_1.csv c:\folder2\CourseCompletion.csv -force
It's the .csv file with the unknown file name that I can't figure out and I'm hoping someone can help.
Assuming that you have only one .csv file in your source folder.
Try this:
$csv = Get-Item "path to the source csv file\*.csv"
$file = $csv.FullName
Move-Item $file "path to the destination folder\newfilename.csv" -Force
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I am currently in the process of restructuring a Windows server file directory and need to bulk rename over 10,000 files all in different folders but most have duplicate filenames (e.g 0001.pdf, 0002.pdf)
I have written a Powershell script to help me do this but I am having some trouble with the execution.
The script reads a csv file (export of all the files in the folder structure - export.csv) then creates the variables $OldFilename & $NewFileName. The variables are then used to locate the old file location and copy it to a new destination using the Copy-Item command for each row in the CSV.
Code
$csv = import-csv c:\tmp\test.csv
$csv | foreach-object {
$OldFileName =$_.OldFileName
$NewFileName = $_.NewFileName
}
$csv | ForEach-Object {
$OldFileName =$_.OldFileName
$NewFileName = $_.NewFileName
Copy-Item $OldFileName -Destination $NewFileName
}
CSV is formatted as such
OldFileName,NewFileName
"X:\Folder1\0001.pdf","C:\temp\File0001.pdf"
"X:\Folder2\0001.pdf","C:\temp\File0002.pdf"
"X:\Folder3\0001.pdf","C:\temp\File0003.pdf"
Code does not error when run but files do not appear.
A Write-Output displays the correct file path but a Write-Host((Get-Item $file).length/1MB) does not retrieve the files size which leads me to believe there is an issue with the variable!?
Something I need to add?
Many Thanks
Jonny
I have seen many different postings here on how to approach this task. I have tried them all with minor variations of them to no avail. Every time I run the powershell code, I still get the same error message: "cannot rename because the file does not exist..."
I just simply want to rename a bunch of files in one folder from the list of filenames I have in a text file.
Here is one version of code:
$inputFile1=#()
$filesTochange=#()
$inputFile1 = get-content H:\dev\outputfile.txt
$filesToChange = Get-ChildItem H:\dev\extractedFiles1 | Foreach -Begin
{$i=0}
-process {Rename-Item $filesToChange[$i] -newName ($inputFile1[$i] -f $i++)
}
Here is another version:
$inputFile1=#()
$filesTochange=#()
$inputFile1 = get-content H:\dev\outputfile.txt
$filesToChange = Get-ChildItem H:\dev\extractedFiles1
$i=0
foreach ($fil in $filesToChange) {Rename-Item $fil -NewName
$inputFile1[$i++]}
Not entirely sure what's your setup or desired output is but give this a whirl bud. Not the most elegant looking solutions but hopefully this is what you are looking for? Do be mindful with the sorting of the filenames in your outputfile.txt and how the folders are listed when you get the childitem.
$BasePath = 'C:\Test'
$FilesToChangeFolderName = 'extractedFiles1'
$filestochange = Get-ChildItem -Path "$BasePath\$FilesToChangeFolderName"
$FileNames = Get-Content "$BasePath\outputfile.txt"
if($filestochange.FullName.Count -eq $FileNames.Count)
{
for($i=0; $i -lt $FileNames.Count; $i++)
{
write-host "Renaming file $($filestochange.Name[$i]) to $($FileNames[$i]+".txt")"
Rename-Item -Path $filestochange.FullName[$i] -NewName ($FileNames[$i]+".txt")
}
}
Setup -
outputfile.txt contains:
renametoA
renametoB
renametoC
renametoD
renametoE
renametoF
Folder structure:
Results:
Renaming file renameto1.txt to renametoA.txt
Renaming file renameto2.txt to renametoB.txt
Renaming file renameto3.txt to renametoC.txt
Renaming file renameto4.txt to renametoD.txt
Renaming file renameto5.txt to renametoE.txt
Renaming file renameto6.txt to renametoF.txt
Explanation [TLDR]:
The script below takes a text file input which contains the name that should be used to rename each text file you have.
Example:
outputfile.txt file contains the names below:
renametoA
renametoB
renametoC
renametoD
renametoE
renametoF
There are 6 text files inside the "extractedFiles1" folder which you can see in the image.
The script actually renames the files in the "extractedFiles1" folder according to the names from the output.txt file.
Thus it follows this logic:
Renaming file renameto1.txt to renametoA.txt
Renaming file renameto2.txt to renametoB.txt
Renaming file renameto3.txt to renametoC.txt
Renaming file renameto4.txt to renametoD.txt
Renaming file renameto5.txt to renametoE.txt
Renaming file renameto6.txt to renametoF.txt
So after all the script runs your "extractedFiles1" folder's gonna look something like this:
Despite this being an older thread, I wanted to offer another "brute force" option.
CodeNagi's reply works well in PowerShell, although it took me a bit to get working.
If you already have a list with file names (output.txt) consider using excel (or OpenOffice) and the command prompt cmd.
This video is a step by step guide for some of this solution:
https://youtu.be/znhqGrF4gVQ
Open cmd with administrator privileges.
Create a list of your current (old) file names:
cd H:\dev\extractedFiles1
dir > input.txt
Open the input.txt (e.g. in Notepad). It should look like this:
Volume in drive H is Windows
Volume Serial Number is C123-4567
Directory of H:\dev\extractedFiles1
05/12/2022 11.24 .
05/12/2022 11.24 ..
05/12/2022 09.34 5,255,248 Filename1.txt
05/12/2022 09.34 5,255,952 Filename2.txt
...
Copy the lines with filenames and timestamps into an Excel sheet
Use Data > Text to columns to split the filenames from the time stamps
Copy or import your target/new filenames from output.txt next to the old filenames
Make a new column with the formula
= "ren"&" "&A1&" "&B1
resulting in something like
ren Filename1.txt FilenameA.txt
Copy all formulas and paste them in cmd. Make sure you are in the right directory.
Notes: If you have spaces in the file names, you will need to wrap each file name first in apostrophes ". Since the concatenation formula in excel doesn't accept """ (triple apostropes), make yourself a column with only " (here C) and then refer to it in the concatenation: = "ren "&C1&A1&C1&" "&C1&B1&C1&.
Further, if you have duplicate files or want to make sure they are copied correclty, you can use the MOVE function instead of rename (ren).
Instead of point 6. above do the following:
Make a new column with the formula
= "MOVE"&" "&A1&" "&"H:\dev\extractedFiles1\Renamed"&B1
Copy the created command into cmd
It will move and rename the files according to the names in B1.
This example make a copy and rename file to a list csv
Import-CSV LISTA.csv -Header newFileName | % { Copy-Item -Path archivo_convert.pdf -Destination "$($_.newfilename).pdf" }
I have a Excel file with the current filename and new filename, both are the whole path to the files. I would like to write a PowerShell script to change the filename.
I have created a csv file but I don't know how to create this within the for each iteration.
With a CSV file with the data like this:
OldName,NewName
C:\folder\file.txt,new_file.txt
C:\folder\song.mp3,different_song.mp3
This code will rename each file:
$files = Import-Csv "C:\folder\rename_files.csv"
foreach ($file in $files){
Rename-Item -Path $file.OldName -NewName $file.NewName -Verbose
}
I am new to the powershell scripting and hence need one help in scripting, the script which I am looking for should search for the folders as per the entries in .csv file, please note that it should search for the folders in the drive without knowing the path and move it to the destination.
I did some research and created below script which is taking data from .txt file and moving the data to the destination however it does not work if I just write C:\ at the place of source folder.
Request you to please help me :)
Get-Content C:\abc.txt |
Foreach-Object {
move-item -path "C:\0123\$_" -destination "C:\To Archive\$_"
}
With what you've given, I'd do something like the following:
$File = Import-Csv C:\share\test\files.txt
Foreach($fileName in $File.FileName)
{
Move-Item -path "C:\share\test\OldLocation\$fileName" -Destination "C:\share\test\NewLocation\$fileName"
}
I did this with a .csv file that had one column whose title was FileName. Notable differences from your code include using the Import-Csv cmdlet and specifying the .csv header title in the foreach loop.
If you wanted to do this with a single command:
Import-Csv C:\share\test\files.txt | ForEach-Object {
Move-Item -path "C:\share\test\OldLocation\$($_.[csvHeader])" -Destination "C:\share\test\NewLocation\$($_.[csvHeader])"
}
Where csvHeader is the title of the column in your .csv file.
My .csv file looked like:
FileName
file1.txt
file2.txt
file3.txt
PowerShell File Rename Date/Time asked how to append the datetime stamp and I can see that it worked. However when I run this I end up prepending the file name with contents of $BackupFolder. I set $BackupFolder = "C:\Data1" and my files move to the C:\ with Data1 prepended to the name. I thought that $BackupFolder was the destination for the Move-Item cmdlet. What am I missing?