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Shiva
Shiva

Reputation: 21

Rename child directories

Very first powershell experience and want to rename files and directories that starts with 50 to 40 inside of my rank folder

Initially I tried this 

foreach($Directory in Get-ChildItem 'D:\Issues\' -Recurse -Directory)
{
    Rename-Item $Directory -NewName $($Directory.Name -replace "50","40")
}

But it also tries with the folders and even tries with the directories that doesn't have a 50 in it

second time i tried with

Get-ChildItem -Recurse | Rename-Item {$_.FullName -replace '50','40'}

but this error comes in

Rename-Item : A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument '$_.FullName -replace '70','80''. At line:1 char:26

What Am I actually missing??

I have tried with 2 more Commands and it actually works but brings errors in red

For Files

foreach($File in Get-ChildItem 'D:\Issues\' -Recurse -file)
{
    Rename-Item $file -NewName $($_.Name -replace "50","40")
}

Errors

Rename-Item : Cannot bind argument to parameter 'NewName' because it is an empty string. At line:3 char:32

For Directories

foreach($Directory in Get-ChildItem 'D:\Issues\' -Recurse -Directory)
{
    Rename-Item $Directory -NewName $($Directory.Name -replace "50","40")
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 308

Answers (1)

henrycarteruk
henrycarteruk

Reputation: 13227

You need to filter Get-ChildItem to return only the items you want to rename. This can be done using the Include param:

Get-ChildItem D:\Issues -Include 50* -Recurse | Rename-Item -NewName {$_.Name -replace '50','40'}

Upvotes: 1

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