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Vikrant Kumar
Vikrant Kumar

Reputation: 23

file rename in bulk in powershell using foreach loop

$folderpath = 'E:\BOOKS\Python\python\python'
$items = Get-ChildItem -Recurse $folderpathc *_pdf
foreach( $i in $items) { Rename-Item E:\BOOKS\Python\python\python\$i E:\BOOKS\Python\python\python\$i.pdf }

Hi, I tried to rename the file under a folder using above command but not able to do and got below error.

Rename-Item : Cannot rename because item at 'E:\BOOKS\Python\python\python\book_pdf' does not exist.
At line:1 char:37
+ foreach( $i in $items) { Rename-Item <<<<  E:\BOOKS\Python\python\python\$i E:\BOOKS\Python\python\python\$i.pdf }
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (:) [Rename-Item], PSInvalidOperationException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvalidOperation,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.RenameItemCommand

Upvotes: 2

Views: 11485

Answers (2)

Andy Arismendi
Andy Arismendi

Reputation: 52699

Looks like you want to change all '_pdf' to '.pdf', if so this is a pretty easy way to do it.

ls -Path 'E:\BOOKS\Python\python\python' -Filter *_pdf | 
  ForEach-Object {$_ | Rename-Item -NewName $_.Name.Replace('_pdf', '.pdf')}

Upvotes: 9

TheMadTechnician
TheMadTechnician

Reputation: 36342

You're over complicating things. Don't re-type out the path name to the file, use the FullName property already provided by the Get-ChildItem cmdlet. Then just use a substring of the BaseName property to remove the last 4 characters, and add ".pdf" to the end.

$folderpath = 'E:\BOOKS\Python\python\python'
$items = Get-ChildItem -Recurse $folderpathc *_pdf
foreach( $i in $items) { 
    Rename-Item $i.FullName ($i.basename.substring(0,$i.BaseName.length-4)+".pdf")
}

Upvotes: 0

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