Powershell Move-Item Rename If File Exists

Question

I have a powershell script that takes all of the files in one directory, renames the first one and moves it, and then goes to the next file. Sometimes there will be multiple

Answer 1

There's no built-in way to do that. Give this a try:

$src = "d:\temp"
$dest = "d:\temp1"
$num=1

Get-ChildItem -Path $src -Filter *.txt -Recurse | ForEach-Object {

    $nextName = Join-Path -Path $dest -ChildPath $_.name

    while(Test-Path -Path $nextName)
    {
       $nextName = Join-Path $dest ($_.BaseName + "_$num" + $_.Extension)    
       $num+=1   
    }

    $_ | Move-Item -Destination $nextName
}