Remove character from file name in powershell

Question

I\'m new to powershell and wanted to know if there\'s a way to remove a character from a file name. The character I\'m trying to remove is a dash \"-\" and sometimes there

Answer 1

To remove or replace characters in a file name use single quotes ' and for "special" characters escape them with a backslash \ so the regular expression parser takes it literally.

The following removes the $ (dollar sign) from all file names in your current directory:

Get-Item * | ForEach-Object { rename-item $_ ($_.Name -replace '\$', '') }

the following is the same as above using the shorter alias for each command:

gi * | % { rni $_ ($_.Name -replace '\$', '') }

The following is removing the standard character "Z" from all file names in your current directory:

gi * | % { rni $_ ($_.Name -replace 'Z', '') }

Answer 2

Get-Item .\some-file-with-hyphens.txt | ForEach-Object {
  Rename-Item $_ ($_.Name -replace "-", "")
}

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