Recursive folder rename through command line

Question

I have 500000 plus files in over 3000 directories and need to rename all folders called PHOTOS to Photos. I also need to Rename any Folders call Photos blah blah blah to be called just Photos. It needs to be recursive to crawl down through our convoluted file struct within a data dump drive z:

Any help appreciated

Jamie

Solution

Here is a usefull script to rename your files under the z:/ drive:

Get-ChildItem Z:/ -Recurse | Rename-Item -NewName { $_.name -replace 'PHOTOS', 'Photos'}

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Comments

[Admin]

Could be possible that you end up with directories with the same name? If so, should they be number/ignored/something else?

[Admin]

Can you please share the code you've tried so we can see what you're trying to do?

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[Jeter-work]

Filtering the list before going to rename will wreak less havoc, take less resources, and run faster: Get-ChildItem M:/ -Recurse | Where-Object { $_.name -like "PHOTOS*"} | Rename-Item -NewName { $_.name -replace 'PHOTOS', 'Photos'}

[Admin]

since the user only wants to rename folders and not files, left of the pipe should read: get-childitem z:/ -Recurse -Directory