Renaming part of a file name on multiple files

Thu Dec 09 2021

Eric Thomas D. Cabigting

How to rename part of a file name in multiple files.

• Open Powershell (win+x) and click on Power shell
• use CD to path to folder

CD PATH\TO\FOLDER

• Use the following command to replace a part of the file name of all the files in the folder

ls | Rename-Item -NewName {$_.name -replace "OLD-FILE-NAME-PART","NEW-FILE-NAME-PART"}

• The "OLD-FILE-NAME-PART" must be an exact character set of the part of the filename you want to replace
• The "NEW-FILE-NAME-PART" will replace the part of the old part.