Is there a single PowerShell command to copy and rename files?

Question

I am using the following command to copy files from a network share to my local hard drive based on a CSV file.

import-csv C:\\TEST\\test.csv | foreach {copy-ite         


        

Answer 1

If you have a CSV containing two columns, oldfilepath and newfilename, then you can use the following.

Import-Csv C:\test.csv | % { Copy-Item -Path $_.oldfilepath -Destination "C:\TEST\$($_.newfilename)" }

Notice how the $_.newfilename is encapsulated inside a $(). That's because $_.newfilename is an expression (since we are getting a property out of the variable), and not a variable. $() tells PowerShell to solve the expression before using it in the string. If we don't use it, it would have used the whole csv-object for that row($_) as a string and returned an error.