Recursive renaming files using PS is trivial (variation on example from Mike Ormond's blog):
dir *_t*.gif -recurse
| foreach { move-item -literal $_ $_.Name.Replace("_thumb[1]", "")}
I'm trying to recursively rename a folder structure.
The use case is I'd like to be able to rename a whole VS.NET Solution (e.g. from Foo.Bar to Bar.Foo). To do this there are several steps:
I'm currently working the first step in this process.
I found this posting, which talks about the challenges, and claims a solution but doesn't talk about what that solution is.
I keep running into the recursion wall. If I let PS deal with the recursion using a flag, the parent folder gets renamed before the children, and the script throws an error. If I try to implement the recursion myself, my head get's all achy and things go horribly wrong - for the life of me I cannot get things to start their renames at the tail of the recursion tree.
Here's the solution rbellamy ended up with:
Get-ChildItem $Path -Recurse | %{$_.FullName} |
Sort-Object -Property Length -Descending |
% {
Write-Host $_
$Item = Get-Item $_
$PathRoot = $Item.FullName | Split-Path
$OldName = $Item.FullName | Split-Path -Leaf
$NewName = $OldName -replace $OldText, $NewText
$NewPath = $PathRoot | Join-Path -ChildPath $NewName
if (!$Item.PSIsContainer -and $Extension -contains $Item.Extension) {
(Get-Content $Item) | % {
#Write-Host $_
$_ -replace $OldText, $NewText
} | Set-Content $Item
}
if ($OldName.Contains($OldText)) {
Rename-Item -Path $Item.FullName -NewName $NewPath
}
}