I have a folder with a bunch of textures and things that I need to rename to lower case, is there any way to rename all the files and folders of files in this folder to have lower case names at once? edit: this is different from the similar post because the command from that answer will only do it for one folder at a time, not all the folders in the top folder
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I found this in a comment on the simalar post that at first i thought only renamed things in the foler its executed in. It seems to work
Get-ChildItem "C:\path\to\folder" -recurse |
Where {-Not $_.PSIsContainer} |
Rename-Item -NewName {$_.FullName.ToLower()}
Bluesandbox
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Try this powershell code:
Get-childItem "Filepath" -Recurse | Rename-Item -NewName {$_.Basename.tostring().tolower() + $_.extension}
This will recursively rename all files and folders in "Filepath" to lower case.
Wasif
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1I tried that in the powershell command line but it just kept saying "Rename-Item : Source and destination path must be different." – Bluesandbox Jul 29 '20 at 16:23
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Based on Is there a way to batch rename files to lowercase, here is a formulation that does files and folders recursively:
for /f "Tokens=*" %f in ('dir /l/b/s') do (rename "%f" "%f")
harrymc
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Recursive version:
for /f "Tokens=*" %f in ('dir /l/b/a-d/s') do (rename "%f" "%f")per comment in that same post since all other answers are showing recursive too. – Vomit IT - Chunky Mess Style Jul 29 '20 at 16:23 -
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PowerShell: Verbose, Files
$Source = 'c:\TopFolder'
( Get-ChildItem $Source -File -Recurse ) | Rename-Item -NewName { $_.Name.ToLower() }
Key-Banger, Files:
(gci 'c:\TopFolder' -af -r) | ren -new { $_.Name.ToLower() }
For folders, to avoid Source/Destination errors, you have to rename to a temp value as an intermediate step. Here's one way:
gci -ad -Recurse | %{
$Lower = $_.Name.ToLower()
$_ | ren -new {(Get-Date).Ticks } -passthru | ren -new {$Lower}
}
Keith Miller
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Um, what is key-banger? I tried the top one in powershell and it just returned errors – Bluesandbox Jul 29 '20 at 16:33
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Using aliases to shorten the expression. What sort of error messages? Do any of the names have special characters like
$,[, or]? – Keith Miller Jul 29 '20 at 18:02
Source/Destinationerror. – Keith Miller Jul 29 '20 at 18:22