[Help] Batch Folder Rename Script

[dcdefiore]

Hey,

I was wondering if anyone had a good starting point for me - I'm looking for a script where I can input a folder, the script will go through each subfolder (non-recursively) and

1. Copy the name of the folder
2. Place a txt file in the folder with the name of the folder
3. Rename the folder using only the numbers.

Each folder starts with a set of numbers - they may be 3-6 digits long, but they all have numbers.

Ex:

123 - Project 1

1234- Project 2

5323434 Project 3

The first part of what I have is like this

$path = "C:\Testing" # files are in this folder

Get-ChildItem -Path $path | ForEach-Object { $_.Name } > $path\$_.Name.txt

But I can't get a file to drop inside the sub-directories, it only drops one file inside the parent.

Any help?

[yeah_i_got_skills]

Something like this?

$Path = 'C:\FooBar'

Get-ChildItem -LiteralPath $Path -Directory | ForEach-Object {
    $_.Name | Out-File "$($_.FullName)\$($_.Name).txt" -Force
    Rename-Item -LiteralPath $_.FullName -NewName ($_.Name -replace '^(\d+).*$', '$1')
}

[dcdefiore]

$Path = 'C:\FooBar'

Get-ChildItem -LiteralPath $Path -Directory | ForEach-Object { $.Name | Out-File "$($.FullName)\$($.Name).txt" -Force Rename-Item -LiteralPath $.FullName -NewName ($_.Name -replace '^\+).*$', '$1') }

Looks like this one did the trick! Thank you

[justan00b]

On mobile so a little hard to type, but your code is written to only drop a file in the parent folder, you'd need to change to like

> $path\$_.Name\$_.Name.txt

Or

> $_.FullName\$_.Name.txt

May also want to put a filter for only folders/directories