Saturday, 22 July 2017

Copy files and change name with PowerShell

A friend of mine asked if I could copy files from one folder to another and rename them according to the following format

YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.ext

here source code:

 cls 
 $source="C: ext72source" 
 $destination="C: ext72destination" 
 set-location  $source 
 $files=get-childitem -Recurse 
 foreach ($file in $files) 
 { 
 if (!$file.PsIsContainer) 
 { 
 $newName=$destination+""+[string]$file.LastWriteTime.Year + 
 [string]$file.LastWriteTime.Month + 
 [string]$file.LastWriteTime.Month + 
 [string]$file.LastWriteTime.Day + 
 [string]$file.LastWriteTime.Hour + 
 [string]$file.LastWriteTime.Minute + 
 [string]$file.LastWriteTime.Second + 
 [string]$file.Extension 
 Copy-Item $file.FullName $newName 
 } 
 }

Then change source and destination variable in the script.

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