- 1 year ago
Best cmdlet to copy, rename and overwrite the destination file
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In PowerShell, you can use the Copy-Item
cmdlet to copy a file and the Rename-Item
cmdlet to rename it. To overwrite the destination file if it already exists, you can use the -Force
parameter with Copy-Item
. Here's an example of how you can use these cmdlets:
powershell# Copy file.txt to destination folder and rename it to newfile.txt
Copy-Item -Path C:\path\to\file.txt -Destination C:\destination\folder\newfile.txt -Force
# Rename newfile.txt to finalfile.txt
Rename-Item -Path C:\destination\folder\newfile.txt -NewName finalfile.txt -Force
This will copy file.txt
to the destination
folder, rename it to newfile.txt
, and then rename it again to finalfile.txt
, overwriting the destination file if it already exists.