CODEWITHSUNDEEP
powershell
Charles
Charles

Reputation: 1

Powershell replace characters in files within sub-directories using -LiteralPath

I want to replace bad characters in filenames within all sub-directories. However due to limitation of rename-item with '[' (wild cards) I have to use the -LiteralPath in the command. This means I'm having issues with running this with sub-directories.

The code below works on current directory, but I cannot work out how to adapt this code to rename files within all sub-directories. Please help?

ls *.* -recurse | % { Move-Item -literalpath $_.fullname `
($_.name -replace "[()\[\]]|\.(?!\w{3}$)", " ") }

Upvotes: 0

Views: 130

Answers (1)

user6811411
user6811411

Reputation:

Your RegEx will remove the dot's from extensions with not exactly 3 chars.

.h
.cs
.html

I suggest replacing in BaseName and append the extension and only if brackets/parentheses/dots chars are present.

Get-ChildItem *.* -Recurse -File|
  Where-Object {$_.BaseName -match '[()\[\]\.]'}|
    Rename-Item -NewName {($_.BaseName -replace '[()\[\]\.]',' ')+$_.Extension} -Whatif

Remove the -WhatIf if the output looks OK.

Upvotes: 1

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