I need to save in a .bat file a powershell command and execute the .bat so I get the same result than what I would get from doing it manually.

For example I have a folder in c: called "my mp3"

so I have some files:

"c:\my mp3\13 # _Labyrinth__D Ma.mp3"
"c:\my mp3\14 # _Labyrinth__D Ma.mp3"
"c:\my mp3\15 # _Labyrinth__D Ma.mp3"
"c:\my mp3\16 # _Labyrinth__D Ma.mp3"

And so on. I have this powershell command that I have saved in a .ps1 file called b1.ps1:

get-childitem *.mp3*,*.wav*,*.m4v*,*.mp4*,*.mov*,*.jpg*,*.mkv*,*.mpg*,*.mpeg*,*.flv*,*.vob*,*.m4v*,*.ts*,*.tga*,*.bmp* | foreach { rename-item $_ $_.Name.Replace("!","").replace('#','').replace("'","").replace('ù','').replace('_','').replace('{','').replace('}','').replace('&','').replace('?','').replace(',','').replace(';','').replace(':','').replace('$','').replace('^','').replace('\','').replace('"','').replace('@','').replace('*','').replace('(','').replace(')','').replace('-','').replace('=','').replace('+','').replace('/','').replace('>','').replace('ę','').replace('ą','').replace('ś','').replace('ż','').replace('ź','').replace('ć','').replace('ń','').replace('ł','').replace('ó','').replace('è','')}

Now I have to execute the script, possibly using a simple .bat that I save in "c:\my mp3" or another folder, so that in the folder working folder it "apply" the script (that remove some special characters in the filenames).

How can I do? thanks

I need to save in a .bat file a powershell command and execute the .bat so I get the same result than what I would get from doing it manually.

For example I have a folder in c: called "my mp3"

so I have some files:

"c:\my mp3\13 # _Labyrinth__D Ma.mp3"
"c:\my mp3\14 # _Labyrinth__D Ma.mp3"
"c:\my mp3\15 # _Labyrinth__D Ma.mp3"
"c:\my mp3\16 # _Labyrinth__D Ma.mp3"

And so on. I have this powershell command that I have saved in a .ps1 file called b1.ps1:

get-childitem *.mp3*,*.wav*,*.m4v*,*.mp4*,*.mov*,*.jpg*,*.mkv*,*.mpg*,*.mpeg*,*.flv*,*.vob*,*.m4v*,*.ts*,*.tga*,*.bmp* | foreach { rename-item $_ $_.Name.Replace("!","").replace('#','').replace("'","").replace('ù','').replace('_','').replace('{','').replace('}','').replace('&','').replace('?','').replace(',','').replace(';','').replace(':','').replace('$','').replace('^','').replace('\','').replace('"','').replace('@','').replace('*','').replace('(','').replace(')','').replace('-','').replace('=','').replace('+','').replace('/','').replace('>','').replace('ę','').replace('ą','').replace('ś','').replace('ż','').replace('ź','').replace('ć','').replace('ń','').replace('ł','').replace('ó','').replace('è','')}

Now I have to execute the script, possibly using a simple .bat that I save in "c:\my mp3" or another folder, so that in the folder working folder it "apply" the script (that remove some special characters in the filenames).

How can I do? thanks

• windows
• powershell
• batch-file

• 1 Why do you want to build another script file? You can just copy the ps1 file into the directory with the files to be processed, and then double click on the ps1 script file. – Strings Commented 2 days ago
• I need to execute a batch processing: if I manually go in cmd and run "powershell, and then I manually run the content of the ps1 file --> the processing is worked ok. But when I need to execute the content of the .ps1 via batch it don't work. When I clic to "run with poweshell" with the explorer link --> the process failed. Possibly I need to execute the content of .ps1 via batch or cmd. Or modify the content of .ps1 so that when it used it presume the "cd" current directory as default directory for all the script – marcorocco Commented 2 days ago
• trying to execute from cmd "powershell.exe -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -File "%~dp0b1.ps1"" return error: argument for script file is not exist. I need to tell to powershell that the argument is the current directory (in this case c:\my mp3) – marcorocco Commented 2 days ago
• If that batch file is not being run from the same directory as the one with your PowerShell script is in, then clearly %~dp0 will not be correct. Perhaps you should explain to us where every file you are using resides! – Compo Commented 2 days ago
• 2 Also, you can use regex to simplify a LOT of that: ( $_ -replace '[!#ù_{}&?,;":$^\@*()-=+>ęąśżźćńłóè]', '' ) There are a couple characters that are awkward to include the in the expression ( square brackets [] and double quote ")... not impossible, but awkward enough to maybe do them separate. But the rest of this will also perform way better, since .Replace() allocates a whole new string for each call. – Joel Coehoorn Commented 2 days ago

1 Answer 1

You can obviously run the PowerShell file directly from your batch file using its -File option.

@%SystemRoot%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -File "%~dp0b1.ps1"

Obviously you can change the -ExecutionPolicy to whatever suits your environment.

However there's no need to use the .ps1 file, as you can do that directly as a PowerShell -Command from the batch file.

@%SystemRoot%\System32\chcp 65001 1>NUL
@%SystemRoot%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -NoProfile -Command "Get-ChildItem *.mp3*,*.wav*,*.m4v*,*.mp4*,*.mov*,*.jpg*,*.mkv*,*.mpg*,*.mpeg*,*.flv*,*.vob*,*.m4v*,*.ts*,*.tga*,*.bmp* | ForEach { Rename-Item $_ $_.Name.Replace(\"!\",\"\").Replace('#','').Replace(\"'\",\"\").Replace('ù','').Replace('_','').Replace('{','').Replace('}','').Replace('&','').Replace(',','').Replace(';','').Replace('$','').Replace('@','').Replace('(','').Replace(')','').Replace('-','').Replace('=','').Replace('+','').Replace('ę','').Replace('ą','').Replace('ś','').Replace('ż','').Replace('ź','').Replace('ć','').Replace('ń','').Replace('ł','').Replace('ó','').Replace('è','')}"

Please ensure, as you are using recognizable unicode characters in your replacements, and changing the codepage accordingly, that you save the written batch file using an editor which also saves it as UTF8-NoBOM.