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brainydexter
brainydexter

Reputation: 20356

how can i recursively rename folders in windows matching string and ignoring case

I have subfolders which have names:

I would like to rename all of these to:

Is there an easy way of doing this in windows (perhaps using powershell or something in command prompt ) ?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1971

Answers (2)

Shiham
Shiham

Reputation: 2184

Try this. 

Get-ChildItem C:\path-to-directory -Recurse -Filter *foo* | Rename-Item -NewName { $_.name -replace 'foo', 'bar'} -verbose

Upvotes: 0

Shay Levy
Shay Levy

Reputation: 126732

You can do that in two Rename-Item calls. The first would add a prefix to each name to avoid the 'Source and destination path must be different.' error. The second run will remove the prefix.

Get-ChildItem -Filter original_optimize -Recurse | 
Rename-Item -NewName __foo__Original_Optimize -PassThru | 
Rename-Item -NewName {$_.Name -replace '^__foo__'} -PassThru

Upvotes: 2

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