Powershell to rename

Another great little feature of powershell is the ability to easily rename a set of files.  For example, to rename all files in a [tmpfiles] folder, and replace all spaces with a dash…

gci -Path c:\tmpfiles | rename-item -newname {$_.name -replace ” “, “-“}

could also be written

gci | %{rni $_ $_.name.Replace(” “, “-“)}

The shortcuts here are:

gci = Get-Childitem

% = ForEach-Object

rni = Rename-item