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wilwang/Powershell - Loop through directory and rename files with regex

Created July 6, 2016 14:16
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Powershell - Loop through directory and rename files with regex
$targDir = "C:\dev\LMS-client-ADA";
Get-ChildItem $targDir -Filter *.pdf |
Foreach-Object {
$oldname = $_.FullName;
$newname = $_.FullName.Replace(" ", "_");
$newname = $newname -replace "[0-9]+\-[0-9]+\-[0-9]+_", "";
Rename-Item $oldname $newname;
$oldname;
$newname;
}
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