I downloaded a backup folder of about 3,000 files from our email service provider. None of the files have an associated filetype; instead the file extension was appended to the name of each individual file. For example:
community-involvement-photo-1-jpg
social-responsibility-31-2012-png
report-02-12-15-pdf
I can manually change the last dash to a period and the files work just fine. I'm wondering if there is a way to batch convert all of the files so they can be sorted and organized properly. I know in the Command Line I can do something like ren *. *.jpg but there are several different file types contained in the folder, so it wouldn't work for all of them. Is there any way I can tell it to convert the last "-" in each file name into a "." ?
I'm on Windows 10; unable to install any filename conversion programs unless I want to go through weeks of trouble with the IT group.
$ordner = "c:\temp\pseudodaten"
$Liste = (get-childitem -path $Ordner).Name
cd $ordner
foreach ($Datei in $Liste) {
$Length = $datei.length
$NeuerName=$Datei.Substring(0,$Length-4)+"."+$datei.Substring($Length - 3, 3)
rename-item -Path $Datei -NewName $NeuerName
}
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I want to see all the files in a folder and its sub folders and list its encoding.
I know that you can use git ls-files to see the files and file* to get the name + its encoding.
But I need help how I can do both at the same time.
The reason is that we have problem with encoding and need to see what files are encoded in what way. So I guess a PS script would work fine as well.
I think the best way to solve this by Powershell is first get your files by following Script:
$folder = Get-ChildItem -Path "YourPath"
and in a foreach ($file in $folder) use one of the following scripts to get the encoding (which is straightforward)
https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/PSTemplatizer/1.0.20/Content/Functions%5CGet-FileEncoding.ps1
https://vertigion.com/2015/02/04/powershell-get-fileencoding/
Story:
I have multiple folders with 1000+ files in each that are named similar to each other but are slightly different but they relate to the same content.
For example, in one folder I have files named quite simply "Jobs to do.doc" and in another folder "Jobs to do (UK) (Europe).doc" etc.
This is on Windows 10, not Linux.
Question:
Is there a script to compare each folder's content and rename them based on minimum similarity? So the end result would be to remove all the jargon and have each file in each folder (multiple) the same as one another but STILL remain in the retrospective folder?
*Basically compare multiple folder content to one folders contents and rename them so each file in each folder is named the same?
Example:
D:/Folder1/Name_Of_File1.jpeg
D:/Folder2/Name_Of_File1 (Europe).jpeg
D:/Folder3/Name_of_File1_(Random).jpeg
D:/folder1/another_file.doc
D:/Folder2/another_file_(date_month_year).txt
D:/Folder3/another_file(UK).XML
I have used different file extensions in the above example in hope someone can write a script to ignore file extensions.
I hope this make sense. So either a script to remove the content in brackets and keep the files integrity or rename ALL files across all folders based on minimum similarity.
The problem is its 1000+ files in each folder so want to run it as an automated job.
Thanks in advance.
If the stuff you want to get rid of is always in brackets then you could write a regex like
(.*?)([\s|_|]*\(.*\))
Try something like this
$folder = Get-ChildItem 'C:\TestFolder'
$regex = '(.*?)([\s|_|]*\(.*\))'
foreach ($file in $folder){
if ($file.BaseName -match $regex){
Rename-Item -Path $file.FullName -NewName "$($matches[1])$($file.extension)" -Verbose #-WhatIf
}
}
Regarding consistency you could run a precheck using same regex
#change each filename if it matches regex and store only it's new basename
$folder1 = get-childitem 'D:\T1' | foreach {if ($_.BaseName -match $regex){$matches[1]}else{$_.BaseName}}
$folder2 = get-childitem 'D:\T2' | foreach {if ($_.BaseName -match $regex){$matches[1]}else{$_.BaseName}}
#compare basenames in two folders - if all are the same nothing will be returned
Compare-Object $folder1 $folder2
Maybe you could build with that idea.
I have a folder of images in jpg format called "finalpics" and also another folder ("sourcepics") which has several subfolders containing RAW files in various formats.
I need a script (batch file?) that will copy all the files from "sourcepics" and its subfolders to another folder ("sourcefinal") only if that file exists in "finalpics".
As an example:
"finalpics" contains files called mypic1.jpg, mypic2.jpg, mypic3.jpg.
"sourcepics" contains files called mypic1.dng, mypic2.psd, mypic3.cr2, yourpic1.dng, yourpic2.psd, yourpic3.cr2.
I'd want the script to copy the 'mypic' files but not the 'yourpic' files to "sourcefinal".
There's over a thousand jpgs in "finalpics" but probably 40,000 files in the various subfolders of "sourcepics".
Hope that makes sense.
Thanks for looking.
I think this PowerShell code will do what you're after; it will copy files of the same name (ignoring file extension) from "SourcePics" to "SourceFinal" if they exist in FinalPics:
# Define your folder locations:
$SourcePicsFolder = 'C:\SourcePics'
$FinalPicsFolder = 'C:\FinalPics'
$SourceFinalFolder = 'C:\SourceFinal'
# Get existing files into arrays:
$SourcePics = Get-ChildItem -Path $SourcePicsFolder -Recurse
$FinalPics = Get-ChildItem -Path $FinalPicsFolder -Recurse
# Loop all files in the source folder:
foreach($file in $SourcePics)
{
# Using the basename property (which ignores file extension), if the $FinalPics
# array contains a basename equal to the basename of $file, then copy it:
if($FinalPics.BaseName -contains $file.BaseName)
{
Copy-Item -Path $file.FullName -Destination $SourceFinalFolder
}
}
Note: There is no filtering based on file type (e.g. it will copy all files). Also, if your 'SourcePics' folder has two images of the same filename but in different subfolders, and a file of this name also exists in 'FinalPics', then you may get an error about file already existing when it tries to copy for the second time. To overwrite, use the -Force parameter on the Copy-Item command.
I tested the above code with some .dng files in 'SourcePics' and .jpg files in 'FinalPics' and it worked (ignoring the yourpic files).
Good day,
I am trying to rename/organize files based on the match/lookup found in the text file.
I have a couple of hundred Cyrillic(Russian) named media files in a folder like this:
файл 35.avi
файл34.avi
файл2 4.avi
файл14.avi
*note that some files have spaces
The text file, with the desired names, looks like this:
файл 35.avi| 4. файл 35.avi
файл34.avi| 3. файл34.avi
файл2 4.avi| 1. файл2 4.avi
файл14.avi| 2. файл14.avi
The reason it looks that way (with | as a separator) is because I tried using "Bulk Renaming Utility" which uses pipe | as a separator for "Rename Pairs" function. So essentially, the filename to the right of pipe | is the final product. Unfortunately, that function does not work with Cyrillic(Russian) or other non standard characters.
I found PowerShell script HERE which appears to be almost what I need except that it does not match file names before renaming.
Similarly, I found this Python script HERE which does what i need but it's for Ubuntu. Unfortunately, I am on a Windows7 and not sure it applies to me.
Any recommendations?
Thank you very much for your time!
You could read the text file into a hashtable, where the key is the old name (the value on the left hand side of the |), and the value is the new name:
$RenameTable = #{}
Get-Content textfile.txt |ForEach-Object {
$OldName,$NewName = $_.Split('|')
$RenameTable[$OldName] = $NewName
}
Then rename the files based on what is in the hashtable:
Get-ChildItem .\folder\with\avi\files |Rename-Item -NewName {
if($RenameTable.ContainsKey($_.Name)){
$RenameTable[$_.Name]
} else {
$_.Name
}
}
I'm posting this question after extensive searches did not yield a solution to my problem.
Here's the problem: I have a folder in windows, with multiple sub folders. Each of them has 1 or more compressed (rar) folders:
-Master_folder
sub_folder1
rarfolder1
Sub_folder2
rarfolder1
and so on
Is there a way to extract the folder that sub_folderX (where X varies from 1 to 300) contains, into sub_folderX itself, and so on for all other sub folders?.
All posts/solutions out there on extracting multiple files simultaneously (even using CLI) talk about extracting everything into a single location. I observed similar results when experimenting with the Winrar GUI options.
However, i don't want to put them in a single location since the extracted folders have the same name. Their location within their outer folder is what differentiates them.
If you are open to scripting, you can recursively iterate over the subfolders using command line winrar and some batch scripting.
#Root drive where rar files are located
$Directory = "T:\*"
$rar = Get-ChildItem -path $Directory -Recurse -Include *.rar
foreach($line in $rar){
$unradir = $line.Directory
$rarFileLocation = $line.VersionInfo.FileName
C:\"Program Files (x86)"\WinRAR\unrar.exe e -ro- $rarFileLocation $unradir
}