CODEWITHSUNDEEP
powershell
Bash
Bash

Reputation: 171

Powershell Batch Add/Append text to a file name

I am trying to batch add text to the titles of several files in a folder. My code works for command line but not PowerShell: 

for %a in (*.avi, *.mta) do ren "%a" "My Title - %a"

Could someone help me adapt this to powershell?

Basically I would like to perform the following actions:

Folder Contents:

001-episode.avi 002-episode.avi

I would like to add the name of the show to the file

ShowTitle-001-episode.avi ShowTitle-002-episode.ave

Thank you.

Upvotes: 6

Views: 24979

Answers (4)

magrega
magrega

Reputation: 67

Somehow the answers here didn't work for me, they just changed the name to the string part without the $_.Name. For example, if I renamed test.txt with Dir | rename-item -newname { "My Title -" + $_.Name } it would just rename it to

My Title -

But this worked

gci F:path *wildcard -depth 2 | % { rename-item –path $_.Fullname –Newname ( 'My Title -' + $_.basename + $_.extension)}

Upvotes: 0

Shaharas K
Shaharas K

Reputation: 31

get-childitem * | rename-item -newname  { "My Title -" + $_.Name }

Upvotes: 3

Bash
Bash

Reputation: 171

Found this to work as well.

Dir | rename-item -newname  { "My Title -" + $_.Name }

Upvotes: 11

Nasir
Nasir

Reputation: 11401

Get-ChildItem *.avi,*.mta | ForEach-Object {
    Rename-Item -Path $_.Name -NewName "My Title - $($_.Name)" 
}

Upvotes: 3

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