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The script starts out by prompting you to enter four pieces of information: the path where the files reside, the new base file name you want to use, the file extensions and a starting number (which I will explain in a second). Get-ChildItem -Path $Path -Filter *.$Extension

Write-Host "The files have been renamed:" Rename-Item -Path $_.FullName -NewName $NewName Write-Host "Old Name: " $_.FullName " New Name: " $NewName $NewName = $Filename + " " + $StartingPoint + "." + $Extension Get-ChildItem -Path $Path -Filter *.$Extension | $StartingPoint = Read-Host "Please enter a starting number" $Extension = Read-Host "Please enter the file extension" $Filename = Read-Host "Please enter new file name" Here is what the script looks like: $Path = Read-Host "Please enter the file path" With a little bit of creativity, I was able to use PowerShell to greatly simplify the task.īut why stop there? Rather than just creating a throwaway script that would work for this one project and nothing else, I created a script that should work for nearly any bulk renaming task. Obviously, I wanted to give these files more descriptive names, but I really didn't want to manually rename hundreds of files by hand. Figure 1: This is what the file structure looked like when I got done ripping the DVDs. You can see an example of this in Figure 1. MP4 files within that folder have names like Title_1, Title_2 and so on. In my case, for example, the tool I used to rip the DVDs placed each disc's contents into a separate folder. The real trick is dealing with the aftermath once the ripping process is complete. The process of ripping a DVD is simple there are a countless utilities available that will allow you to do it. MPG so I could watch them on my computer anytime I wanted (I have the publisher's permission and am not violating any copyright laws). As such, I wanted to convert the videos to. At least some of the information on those DVDs is still relevant, but DVD drives are in short supply these days. A few years back, someone gave me a collection of IT training videos on DVD.