Hi guys. Once again I need your help to solve a problem.

Let's say that in my H unit I have a serie of files without extension like this

myserie1
myserie2
myserie3

and so on. I'd like to find within my folder all the files that start with myserie, add avi extension and finally move them to unit C inside another folder.

I've solved with two separate commands in this way

gci | ? {$_.name.startswith("myserie")} | % {rename-item $_ ($_.name +".avi")}



gci | ? {$_.name.startswith("myserie")} | % {move-item $_ -dest c:\serie}

but I'd like to know if it's possible to use just one line of code
I've tried in this way but files are renamed but they're not copied.

gci | ? {$_.name.startswith("myserie")} | % {rename-item $_ ($_.name +".avi")} | % {copy-item $_.name c:\serie}

Is there a solution? Thanks.

# rename them as you move them
ls h:\serie myserie* | ? {$_.name -match '\d+$'} |
mi -des {'c:\serie\' + $_.name + '.avi'}

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Kiron

It's perfect Kiron, thanks.

However I don't understand why it works without using foreach before mi.

On Aug 5, 12:59*am, sardinian_guy <gu...@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote:

> It's perfect Kiron, thanks.
>
> However I don't understand why it works without using foreach before
> mi.
>
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> sardinian_guy

This feature is by design. Move-Item takes the values in $input and
loops through them.

From the documentation:

-------------------------- EXAMPLE 4 --------------------------

C:\PS>get-childitem -path . -recurse -include *.txt | move-item -
destination C:\TextFiles

This command moves all of the text files from the current directory
and all subdirectories, recursively, to the C:\TextFiles directory.

The command uses the Get-Childitem cmdlet to get all of the child
items in the current directory (represented by the dot (.)) and its
subdirectories that have a *.txt file name extension. It uses the
Recurse parameter to make the retrieval recursive and the Include
parameter to limit the retrieval to *.txt files.

The pipeline operator (|) sends the results of this command to Move-
Item, which moves the text files to the TextFiles directory.

If files being moved to C:\Textfiles have the same name, Move-Item
displays an error and continues, but moves only one file with each
name to C:\Textfiles. The other files remain in their original
directories.

If the Textfiles directory (or any other element of the destination
path) does not exist, the command fails. The missing directory is not
created for you, even if you use the Force parameter. Move-Item moves
the first item to a file called "Textfiles" and then displays an error
explaining that the file already exists.

Also, by default, Get-Childitem does not move hidden files. To move
hidden files, use the Force parameter with Get-Childitem.

It is a pretty cool feature, Jeffrey Snover explains it in the PS Team's blog:

http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/arc...23/643674.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/arc...arameters.aspx

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Kiron

Thank you very much to both.

I don't understand why under my nickname there is that image.
I'm a newbie, not a skilled one.