CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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Immersion
Immersion

Reputation: 171

Rename all files on directory with pattern [Powershell]

I have some troubles with Windows OneDrive and very much files on my OS renamed like from:

index.js

to:

index-DESKTOP-9T6I5F5.js

How can i remove that pattern from all files in directory with help cmd/powershell?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1341

Answers (2)

Theo
Theo

Reputation: 61028

Depending on what part of the filename you want to remove of course, but if I understand the question properly, you want everything after the first hyphen to be removed. You can do this like:

Get-ChildItem -Path '<root folder where the files are>' -Filter '*.js' -File -Recurse | 
Rename-Item -NewName { $_.BaseName.Split("-")[0], $_.Extension } -WhatIf

Remove the -WhatIf safety switch if you are satisfied with what is displayed in the console is correct.

Upvotes: 0

Алексей Семенов
Алексей Семенов

Reputation: 856

param(
    $targetPath = "d:\tmp",
    $pattern = "-DESKTOP-9T6I5F5"
)

Get-ChildItem $targetPath -Recurse -File | ForEach-Object {
    Rename-Item $_.FullName -NewName ($_ -replace $pattern) -WhatIf
}

test it and than remove -WhatIf

Upvotes: 2

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