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PowerShell makes renaming files from the command line super easy.
Well show you how to do that all on your Windows 11 or Windows 10 computer.
If you know how to do this, skip to the relevant section below.
Hannah Stryker / How-To Geek
If you arent quite surehow to get a folder or files full path, well show you.
Open a File Explorer windowand find your file or folder.
That action has copied your selected items full path to your clipboard.
you could nowpaste this pathwherever required in the commands below.
To use it, launch a PowerShell window on your PC and bang out the following command.
In the command, replacePATHwith the full path to your file.
Your path should have the files full name as well as the extension.
ReplaceMyNamewith the new name you want to use, andextwith your files original extension.
check that to use your files original extension when you rename the file.
Using another extension can make your file unusable.
Launch a PowerShell window and bang out the following command.
ReplacePATHwith the full path to your folder, andtxtwith the format of the files to rename.
Then, press Enter.
ReplacePATHwith your folder’s full path, andPREFIXwith the text you want to append, then press Enter.
Then, press Enter.
ReplacePATHwith the full path to your folder, and press Enter.
The above command uses your computers system time.
If that time is incorrect, its possible tochange the timezone on your Windows 11andWindows 10PC.
It’s just one of the many ways that PowerShell aids with mundane Windows tasks.
