Vista - rename-item, move-item and special chars.

Unluckily another problem has risen.
Within my nested folders may occur that different files have the same name.

c:\my_path\file[].doc
c:\my_path\folder1\file[].doc
c:\my_path\folder2\file[].doc

and so on.

I need to move all these files to the same folder. To ensure that each file has a unique name I wrote this

$i = 1
get-ChildItem -recurse -filter *.doc | % {
rename-Item $_.fullname -newname ($i.ToString()+"#"+$_.name)
$i++
}

but obviously it doesn't work with special chars like "[" and "]".
I've already read similar thread on this forum and I know that rename-item doesn't have -literalpath switch while move-item has it.
How can I move those files to same folder giving them names like

1#file[].doc, 2#file[].doc, 3#file[].doc and so on. Thanks again.

Ok, I've found this link

http://www.microsoft.com/communities...&sloc=&m=1&p=1

I wrote

$i = 1
get-ChildItem -recurse -filter *.doc | % {
move-Item -literalpath $_.fullname -destination ($_.directoryname+"\"+$i.ToString()+"#"+$_.name) -whatif
$i++
}

and it seems to work well. I can now write my paths to a txt file and move files with unique names to the same folders.

This is a bug

Rename-Item does not take wildcards so doesn't need the LiteralPath

rename-item file.doc file[].doc ## works just fine

so the recepical

rename-item file[].doc file.doc ## should work

I suspect that Rename-Item is calling the equivalent of Get-Item passing the
path qualifying it to be used as a literal path.

"sardinian_guy" wrote:

Thanks again Bob for your answer. You're very kind.