powershell Rename-Item fail to rename

Question

My powershell script:

$dst = \'C:\\Temp\'

#Get all folders in $dst
$folders = Get-ChildItem $dst | ?{ $_.         


        

Answer 1

If you are running PS 3+ add -LiteralPath switch to your rename:

Rename-Item -LiteralPath $folder.FullName $newname

otherwise use Move-Item

Move-Item -LiteralPath $folder.FullName $newname

Powershell doesn't like square brackets in filenames, more in the following post:

This became an issue with V2 when they added the square brackets to the wildcard character set to support "blobbing".

From get-help about_wildcards:

Windows PowerShell supports the following wildcard characters.

Wildcard Description Example Match No match

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• Matches zero or a* A, ag, Apple banana more characters

  ? Matches exactly ?n an, in, on ran one character in the specified position

  [ ] Matches a range [a-l]ook book, cook, look took of characters

  [ ] Matches specified [bc]ook book, cook hook characters

[ and ] are special characters.