Ranger Studios

Powershell Renaming Files with Incremental names

Here’s a handy little Windows Powershell script for renaming multiple files in a directory with an incremental number as part of the file name.

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# Script Name : renamePngs.ps1                                           #
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# Author      : Ranger Studios                                           #
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# Description : Rename .png files in a directory with unique names.      #
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                         # Variable Declarations.                        #
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$currentLocation = get-location
$path            = $currentLocation.toString()
$files           = get-childitem $path *.png
$count           = 0

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                         # Loop through files in path and rename.        #
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foreach ($file in $files) 
{
    Rename-Item $file -NewName "hp_sc_$count.png";
    $count++;
}

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