I hope that this is helpful to someone out there. Get-ChildItem -Filter $regex | select -First 1 | Rename-Item -NewName $new_name

$new_name = $file_name + $int.ToString(000)+$extension # $int.ToString(000) ensures 3 digit number 001, 010, etc # create variable for concatinated new name. # while loop to rename all files with new name $total = Get-ChildItem -Filter $regex | measure # get a total count of the files that meet regex $extension = Read-Host 'What extension do you want? ex.JPG ' $file_name = Read-Host 'What is new file name, without extension? ex.

$regex = Read-Host 'Regex for files you are looking for? ex. # PowerShell script to rename multiple files within a folder to a Here is the script I wrote: # filename: bulk_file_rename.ps1 I take hundreds of photos and the camera names them IMG1234.JPG etc. Now I can use it whenever I need to batch process file renaming. In my research I decided to write a script with PowerShell instead. didn't like the parentheses that windows puts in when you rename in bulk. I recommend copying your files (making a backup), before applying the above.

I had to exactly count the number of characters I want to remove and leave space for my new characters: The A06_P actually replaced 2510_ and the SKMBT_C3601910151 was removed, by using exactly the number of slashes ///////////////// (17 characters).Now I wanted to respectively rename them all to (Album 07 picture #): A07_P001.jpg In my case I had several hundred of enumerated files such as: SKMBT_C36019101512510_001.jpg My problem was slightly different, I wanted to add a Prefix to the file and remove from the beginning what I don't need. Of How does the Windows RENAME command interpret wildcards? See in this thread, the answer of dbenham. You canĪctually delete your Copy of prefix using an obscure forward slash I found the following in a small comment in - New information/technique added to my answer.

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