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10-02-2008
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| | Re: Can't rename files with certain characters in them. On Oct 2, 12:11*pm, "James R. Gentile" <n...@xxxxxx> wrote: Quote: > (sorry if this is a dupe, I posted this last night on microsoft communities > newsgroup server and the post hasn't shown up yet) > > I have a bunch of .mkv files in one folder and the same files in another > folder except some of them have .avi extensions, I want the file names to > match, so I wrote a posh script to find .avi's in folder 2 and rename the > like named .mkv files in folder 1 to the .avi filenames. *The problem is, > for files that have characters like '(', ')', '[', or ']' the rename > silently fails. *Here's the script: > > ~~~~~~~~~ mkv2avi.ps1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > pushd > > set-location c:\directory1 > > $dir=dir *.avi > > set-location c:\directory2 > > foreach ($avi in $dir) > { > * *$mkv = $avi.name.replace(".avi",".mkv") > > * *mv ".\$($mkv)" ".\$($avi.name)" -confirm > > } > > popd > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > One file it fails on is like this: > xxx.xxx.(xxx).xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx-xxx.[xxx.xxx].xxx > > How do I deal with this, or is there a better way to do this? I can reproduce your problem many ways on my CTP2 machine. I'm speculating that both mv and ren check for * or ? in the filenames passed and throw if either is found. Then they call dir without the -literalpath param to get the source file object for rename. Hmm. Pretty serious bug... Meanwhile I was able to rename successfully like this (dir ".\$srcName" -literalpath).moveto(".\$destName") You don't have a -confirm option with this method but you can write your own. |
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10-02-2008
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| | Re: Can't rename files with certain characters in them. Yes, I'm using Powershell V2 CTP. I don't understand your explanation, I'm just a posh noob at this point, but thanks for verifying it's a bug for me. I'll try the method you gave, in my script, thanks. "RickB" <rbielaws@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:7715c921-b51b-4a67-9185-f9c5feb2a1bc@xxxxxx On Oct 2, 12:11 pm, "James R. Gentile" <n...@xxxxxx> wrote: Quote: > ... I can reproduce your problem many ways on my CTP2 machine. I'm speculating that both mv and ren check for * or ? in the filenames passed and throw if either is found. Then they call dir without the -literalpath param to get the source file object for rename. Hmm. Pretty serious bug... Meanwhile I was able to rename successfully like this (dir ".\$srcName" -literalpath).moveto(".\$destName") You don't have a -confirm option with this method but you can write your own. |
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10-05-2008
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| | Re: Can't rename files with certain characters in them. Your method does not work for me either. Additionally, what is wrong here: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ James Gentile@xxxxxx::C:\Users\James Gentile\PS\test$ dir -force Directory: Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem::C:\Users\James Gentile\PS\test Mode LastWriteTime Length Name ---- ------------- ------ ---- -a--- 10/1/2008 5:51 PM 4 ()[] -a--- 10/4/2008 5:24 PM 8 t -a--- 10/1/2008 5:47 PM 4 xxx.xxx.(xxx).xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx-xxx.[xxx.xxx].xxx James Gentile@xxxxxx::C:\Users\James Gentile\PS\test$ (get-item "t").moveto("a") Exception calling "MoveTo" with "1" argument(s): "Cannot create a file when that file already exists. " At line:1 char:22 + (get-item "t").moveto <<<< ("a") James Gentile@xxxxxx::C:\Users\James Gentile\PS\test$ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The file does not exists, and I can execute "mv t a" and it works. I tried closing Posh and reopening it and the same error occured. "RickB" <rbielaws@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:7715c921-b51b-4a67-9185-f9c5feb2a1bc@xxxxxx On Oct 2, 12:11 pm, "James R. Gentile" <n...@xxxxxx> wrote: Quote: > (sorry if this is a dupe, I posted this last night on microsoft > communities > newsgroup server and the post hasn't shown up yet) > > I have a bunch of .mkv files in one folder and the same files in another > folder except some of them have .avi extensions, I want the file names to > match, so I wrote a posh script to find .avi's in folder 2 and rename the > like named .mkv files in folder 1 to the .avi filenames. The problem is, > for files that have characters like '(', ')', '[', or ']' the rename > silently fails. Here's the script: > > ~~~~~~~~~ mkv2avi.ps1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > pushd > > set-location c:\directory1 > > $dir=dir *.avi > > set-location c:\directory2 > > foreach ($avi in $dir) > { > $mkv = $avi.name.replace(".avi",".mkv") > > mv ".\$($mkv)" ".\$($avi.name)" -confirm > > } > > popd > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > One file it fails on is like this: > xxx.xxx.(xxx).xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx-xxx.[xxx.xxx].xxx > > How do I deal with this, or is there a better way to do this? I can reproduce your problem many ways on my CTP2 machine. I'm speculating that both mv and ren check for * or ? in the filenames passed and throw if either is found. Then they call dir without the -literalpath param to get the source file object for rename. Hmm. Pretty serious bug... Meanwhile I was able to rename successfully like this (dir ".\$srcName" -literalpath).moveto(".\$destName") You don't have a -confirm option with this method but you can write your own. |
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10-05-2008
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| | Re: Can't rename files with certain characters in them. There is a way to rename files with brackets in their name. First escape the brackets; in v2 one ` is sufficient, but in v1 two ` may be necessary. Then execute the Rename-Item statement from a drive other than the target files' drive. # - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - # pushd sl c:\directory1 $dir = dir *.avi sl c:\directory2 pushd x:\ # <-- jump to another drive foreach ($avi in $dir) { $mkv = "c:\directory2\$($avi.name.replace(".avi",".mkv"))" rni ($mkv -replace '\[|]','`$0') $avi.name } popd # <-- jump back to C:\ drive popd -- Kiron |
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