Question

I’m working on learning Windows PS – but until than I need some help writing a quick command:

I have a directory of directories, each directory has a unique name.

I need to rename all files within each of these directories to their parents name! As follows:

Current Structure:

/pdfdirectory/pdf_title_directory/filename.pdf
/pdfdirectory/pdf_title_directory123/filename.pdf

After shell script:

/pdfdirectory/pdf_title_directory/pdf_title_directory.pdf
/pdfdirectory/pdf_title_directory123/pdf_title_directory123.pdf

Thanks!

Answer 1

With good faith that you are learning Powershell and will try out stuff:

gci .\test -recurse | ?{ -not $_.PsIsContainer } | 
%{rename-item -path $_.fullname -newname ($_.Directory.Name + $_.Extension)}

Of course, the above will fail it there is more than one file in the directory.

To understand the above learn basic Powershell commands like gci ( alias for Get-ChildItem) and Powershell pipeline concepts.