Trim folders after a specific character in powershell

Question

I'm trying to trim the sub-folders of my music directory . I want to remove everything behind the "(" in the folder names.

example:

d: \ media \ folder1 (2011)

d: \ media \ folder2 (2012)

what I want to keep is:

d: \ media \ folder1

d: \ media \ folder2

can it be done with powershell?

Answer 1

Here is one way:

Get-ChildItem D:\media | Where-Object{$_.PsIsContainer} | %{$newName = $_.Name -replace '(.+) .+', '$1'; Rename-Item $_ $newName}

There weren't a lot of details in your question, so you may need to tweak it to match your exact needs, but that should point you in the right direction.