How to rename a string that contains parenthesis?

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Hi, I am very new to PowerShell and am currently only using it to rename bulk files which I am having success with.

However, I have hit a hurdle when I try and rename a string that uses parenthesis. I’m speculating that each parenthesis may need to have a special character before and after it; however, I am not sure which special character it may be. Does anyone have any idea what it could be?

For example,
Dir | Rename-Item –NewName { $.name -replace “Old (Name)”,“New Filename” }
or
Dir | Rename-Item –NewName { $.name -replace “(Old Name)”,“New Filename” }

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Hey there and welcome.

Try this:

$Folder = Get-Item  -Path '.\(Old Name)'
$Folder | Rename-Item -NewName 'New Name'

NewName takes a string not a script block. Looks like what you’re attempting to do is get the item and use powershell pipline to rename it, which is what my code above does.

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