I've been able to piece together this script to remove periods from the file names without affecting the extension. I've been struggling to make it run in the subdirectories without manually running it in each one.
This is the script I've been using:
dir | rename-item -newname {
[System.IO.Path]::GetFileNameWithoutExtension($_.name).Replace("."," ") +
[System.IO.Path]::GetExtension($_.name); }
Best,
Connor
Get-ChildItem -Recurse | Where-Object { $_.PSIsContainer -eq $false } | Rename-Item -NewName { $_.Basename.replace("."," ") + $_.Extension }
That's how I'd do it.
try using something like dir -recurse
You can do recursive search(search subfolders) using the -Recurse switch for dir / Get-ChildItem.
I would also suggest using powershell properties instead of [System.IO.Path] functions:
$_.BaseName #Filename without extension
$_.Extension #File-extension
