{"id":19,"date":"2014-04-01T02:07:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T00:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/celilsemi.erkiner.com\/blog\/?p=19"},"modified":"2020-05-22T08:10:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T06:10:50","slug":"bulk-rename-with-windows-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celilsemi.erkiner.com\/blog\/bulk-rename-with-windows-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulk Rename with Windows Powershell"},"content":{"rendered":"

I also know that there is third party applications which are really good at this job but if you wanna feel a little bit geeky like me, try this!!<\/span><\/p>\n

First let us assume that we have bunch of files together in a folder.  Their name are pretty confusing and random because let’s say that we have downloaded them all. For our super important project we need their names to become meaningful and useful.<\/p>\n

\"Bulk<\/a>
Before – After Rename<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

1. Open Start menu (or start page) and type “powershell” to find Windows PowerShell and open it.<\/p>\n

You can also try to look for it in your start menu or C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\WindowsPowerShell directory. <\/em><\/p>\n

2. Set working directory to the directory with your random files.<\/p>\n

You can use “cd [directory name]” for walking into the directory “cd ..” for going to outer directory.<\/em><\/p>\n

3. Decide what you want to create algorithm. In this post I will arrange the names “[random].html” as “page[number].php”<\/p>\n

Dir *.html | ForEach-Object -begin { $count=1 } -process { rename-item $_ -NewName \"page$count.php\"; $count++ }<\/pre>\n
\"Windows<\/a>
Windows PowerShell Rename<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Dir *.html |<\/code> part is to get all the html files in that dir and create something sort of an array before processing.<\/p>\n
ForEach-Object<\/code> is to the process file by file.<\/p>\n
-begin { $count=1 }<\/code> mean we start counting from 1.<\/p>\n
-process { rename-item $_ -NewName \"page$count.php\";<\/code> part does the trick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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