Powershell - Create a folder from a file name, then place that file in the folder
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Solution 1
The easiest way here would be to group the files by the first part, which will then become the directory name. In typical PowerShell pipeline manner this is fairly succinct:
Get-ChildItem -File | # Get files
Group-Object { $_.Name -replace '_.*' } | # Group by part before first underscore
ForEach-Object {
# Create directory
$dir = New-Item -Type Directory -Name $_.Name
# Move files there
$_.Group | Move-Item -Destination $dir
}
Solution 2
Also try.
cd <path to your folder>
$files = Get-ChildItem -file;
ForEach ($file in $files)
{
$folder = New-Item -type directory -name ($file.BaseName -replace "_.*");
Move-Item $file.FullName $folder.FullName;
}
You can use the Substring method on the $file.BaseName as well.
cd <path to your folder>
$files = Get-ChildItem -file;
ForEach ($file in $files)
{
$fileName = $file.BaseName;
$folder = New-Item -type directory -name $fileName.Substring(0, $fileName.Length-10);
Move-Item $file.FullName $folder.FullName;
}
The same posted here with explanation.
Author by
Brian Fischer
Updated on June 17, 2022Comments
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Brian Fischer almost 2 years
I have a list of files say...
T123_Product_1.jpg T123_Product_2.jpg T123_Product_3.jpg T456_Product_1.jpg T456_Product_2.jpg T456_Product_3.jpg
etc. etc. etc. for about 900 more files
What I am needing to do is create a folder based on the characters before the first underscore, but to not repeat it since there are multiple files.
So in the example above, I would only want two folders named T123 and T456.
Then I would need the script to place the appropriate files in the folder.
I had found some codes in this thread, but they don't exactly do what I'm looking for.
$Files = Get-ChildItem -Path 'C:\Info\AUGUST 2011\Checklists\' -Filter 'DET1__*' $Files | ForEach-Object { $FileFullName = $_.FullName $TempFileName = "$($FileFullName).tmp" $DestinationFileName = "$FileFullName\$($_.Name)" Move-Item $FileFullName $TempFileName New-Item -Path $FileFullName -ItemType Directory Move-Item $TempFileName $DestinationFileName }
Any help?