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by: brucepay
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Problem with square bracket and rename-item
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Sep 20, 2007 7:19 AM
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Hi all
I have with 'rename-item' exactly the same problem as with 'get-acl' (see my message from Sep 19, 2007 8:03 AM 'Problem with square brackets and get-acl (no -literalpath)'
the square bracket in pathname can't be escape.
i can't rename a file with '[' or ']' in pathname
- gci 'test''[1]file.txt' - is working but - rename-item 'test''[1]file.txt' newname.txt not
I get 'rename-item: Cannot rename because item at 'test[1]file.txt' does not exist.
It 'rename-item' also buggy !!??
Greeting Franck
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Re: Problem with square bracket and rename-item
Posted:
Sep 21, 2007 1:25 AM
in response to:
franck
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Yup - it's buggy but there is a good workaround for this one.
Here's what happened. There was a push just before the release of version 1 where we went through and cleaned up most of the wildcard quoting bugs. This was done right at the end so the work was triaged pretty heavily. Only the most important things got fixed since we were locking done for RTM/RTW. We fixed all of the *-Item commands except for Rename-Item, the rational being that the Rename-Item cmdlet isn't necessary since you can use Move-Item instead and Move-Item does support the -LiteralPath parameter. Here's an example:
PS (48) > new-item [1].txt # create a file with [ ] in the name
Type: file
Directory: Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem::C:\temp\junk
Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
-a--- 9/20/2007 11:11 PM 0 [1].txt
PS (49) > move-item -literal [1].txt one[1].txt # now rename/move it...
PS (50) > ls *`]*.txt
Directory: Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem::C:\temp\junk
Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
-a--- 9/20/2007 11:11 PM 0 one[1].txt
As Jeffrey Snover is so fond of saying, to ship is to choose. Some things get fixed, some don't. The Acl thing should have been fixed because there is no good workaround. The Rename-Item bug is less of an issue except, of course, when users encounter the problem and get annoyed with us. This should, at least, be rel-noted...
-bruce
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