Windows : how to rename or remove specific characters on multiple files

[GMMReviews]

Wow, this is the most simple coding tutorial I have ever found. It worked first time, that never happens for me! I have dyslexia, and I always struggle to type everything correctly, but you really took the time go through each character, and what it does, which I've never seen in a coding tutorial. Usually people just breeze past, and I'm left lost and confused. Thank for very much, saved my ass having to rename 100+ files :)

[sockiebe]

Thank you so much for sharing this useful tip. It works like a charm. In windows 10, I had to press Ctrl+shift and right-click to choose "Open Powershell Window here".

[ArtDecoArtNouveau]

Fantastic! Thank you so much for this very clear and easy way to alter multiple files...I had managed to alter (mess up!) ALL my website pages when updating it and uploaded them without noticing. To correct my mess I was resigned to the fact that I would have to manually rename (by removing .bak) all of the backup files to be able to use them and make the site work correctly again...you have saved me hours!

[ellipseguidegrl]

This was exactly what I needed! It beats having to rename 971 jpgs :) Such a time-saver! Thank you!

[stephencooper]

Very good video if anyone has trouble with the bar or pipe character after declaring the file extension then on windows press "shift + |" (| = the button left of the z key).

[piuditto]

You just saved me from manually changing file names of 7500 images. Thank you so much!!!

[MeetMalli]

Thanks for the script :)
This one also works well " Dir | Rename-Item -NewName {$_.name -replace "OLD-FILE-NAME-PART", ""}
This is for lazy fellows = Modify as per your requirements
get-childitem *.mp3 | foreach { rename-item $_ $_.Name.Replace("Radiohead -", "") }

Update - if you are using windows then try ant Renamer it's way batter then script, I am using it since last few weeks. It will amazed you for sure.

[StarPrater]

I used this technique to find all those copied files (1) (2) I changed the open parentheses to zzz then I could easily search for zzz and delete.... I've just checked a folder of 12 thousand files in about 4 minutes! Thank you so much!

[APLaurenson]

Excellent helpful video. I was able to rid my file names of unreadable characters by copying the unrecognized character between the quotes. You gave a very clear explanation, thank you.

[totalnewbie]

Thank you for saving me the time to do it manually. I had several folders with multiple files that needed to be renamed. You are a life saver!

[vidrax]

Good Night. Excelent, dont listen to any complains, your explanation where near perfection, worked here instantaneous 400+ arch, Only a tip for users: Google the "powershell bar symbol" copy and paste there, absent from new Keyboars or verywell hidden. Thanks MRs Frenchman

[bradlewis]

Fantastic tutorial,
Absolute genius!
Just what I needed to to remove track numbers from all my music files, which was put there by iTunes a long long time ago to my entire music collection. So glad I found this fix to use, it's making things allot more easier...

Thank you so much delanationHelp for putting this up online to help,
God Bless you brother !
🙂🙏❤

[FTWQ]

This worked flawlessly! Save me so much time!!!

[unrealdevop]

Bro, this was a life saver...I had nearly 1000 images I needed to rename, and this saved me from downloading some malware infested software.

[stevensilcock]

Thanks mate. Works like a treat. Had heaps of files names with date time stamp from file history recovery which I was getting sick of looking at and so many it would've taken ages individually. Not any more! Thanks for sharing.

[sirojajam]

Sir, you are literally best at this explanation. Thank you million times and more!

[johnmarcou]

Thanks a lot. Worked perfectly. The only hang up for me, and it was a small one, was my keyboard has a single vertical line for a "pipe" character, not a dashed vertical line, which is actually what I am used to from days gone by. That, combined with a worn out key that I couldn't read where I expected the pipe character, had me running in circles for a while. I was stuck in DOS but now see I need to explore Powershell. Cheers, John

[digimaze]

Thank you so much, saved me so much time even in these days of COVID-19 Lockdown....lol Brilliantly explained and videoed :)

[TheStevenWhiting]

Before the last } you can put -whatif which will show you WHAT would happen IF you ran the command. It won't change anything. This is useful & I've used many a time and noticed a mistake which would of been a headache to fix. At least with -whatif you can get s preview of what would happen.

[DonMaverick]

Thank you very much ! this helped me a LOT, hope you'll have a wonderful life