by Mondeoman at 2012-08-22 17:59:27
Hi all, I am trying to find a powershell script that would help me with creating and renaming in the following scenario:by JeffH at 2012-08-22 18:20:59
I have lots of single video files ("Videonames.avi") in seperate folders, also included in each folder is a single image file ("Pictures.jpg"). What I would like to do is create a 2nd identical Image File ("Pictures.jpg") and rename this Image to the single Video Filename
Example Before:
C:\Temp\Videos\Terminator\Terminator (1984).avi
C:\Temp\Videos\Terminator\Picture.jpg
Example After:
C:\Temp\Videos\Terminator\Terminator (1984).avi
C:\Temp\Videos\Terminator\Picture.jpg
C:\Temp\Videos\Terminator\Terminator (1984).jpg
Many thanks to anyone that can help.
As I am a noobie at powershell, I do have other questions to ask later if this can be solved.
This is a little tricky and certainly not intuitive for a beginner. But assuming the video folders are all top level, such as under C:\temp\videos, something like this will work.by Mondeoman at 2012-08-23 03:19:31
dir c:\temp\videos | where {$.PSIscontainer} | foreach {
$avi=dir $.fullname -filter *.avi
$jpg=dir $.fullname -filter Picture.jpg
$newname=Join-path $.fullname -child "$($avi.basename).jpg"
$jpg | copy-item -dest $newname -passthru
}
The first part gets just the directories under C:\Temp\Videos. Then for each directory I’m getting the AVI and JPG file objects. This will only work if there is a single AVI. I get the basename from the AVi, and use it to define a new name. Finally I copy the jpg using the new name as the destination.
Excellent Jeff and thank you.
Will be back shortly with a few more tricky questions.