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Nino Chavez
Nino Chavez

Reputation: 13

How can I replace \\server\Share$ to D: using powershell

I'm trying to gather a report of long directory paths to provide to each user who has them so that they can use it and make this folders paths short.

How can I replace \\server\Share$ to X: ? I tried the below but nothing changes. I can only get results if I do only one character or one string "\\server" but not the combination "\\server\Share$" can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong. 

$results= "\\\server\Share$\super\long\directory\path\"
$usershare="\\\server\Share$"
$Results | ForEach-Object { $_.FullName = $_.FullName -replace "$usershare", 'X:' }

The output I need is which is what the users will see in their systems. 

X:\super\long\directory\path\

Upvotes: 1

Views: 738

Answers (1)

Theo
Theo

Reputation: 61028

Because the $userShare variable contains characters that have special meaning in Regular Expressions (and -replace uses Regex), you need to [Regex]::Escape() that string.

First thing to notice is that you start the UNC paths with three backslashes, where you should only have two. Next is that your $results variable is simply declared as string and should probably be the result of a Get-ChildItem command..

I guess what you want to do is something like this:

$uncPath   = "\\server\Share$\super\long\directory\path\"    #"# the UNC folder path
$usershare = "\\server\Share$"

$results = Get-ChildItem -Path $uncPath | ForEach-Object {
    $_.FullName -replace ([regex]::Escape($usershare)), 'X:'
}

Hope that helps

Upvotes: 4

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