P$ script, copy file, move and rename, rename old file to include last months date

Question

trying to work it out and not getting that far so far

i manually download a file every month.

this needs to be renamed to setup.exe and moved to a network drive. simples

in the network drive is already a file called setup.exe and this would need to be renamed to last months title Maysetup.exe

after a few months i would delete some of the files and avoid any issues at the end of the year etc

getting a little stumped though

any advice please?

Answer 1

Hello Marc,

this should be OK as a start for what you're looking for, just adapt it to your use case

$RenPat = (Get-Culture).DateTimeFormat.GetAbbreviatedMonthName((Get-Date).AddMonths(-1).Month)

if (Test-Path 'c:\temp\setup.exe') {
    Rename-Item 'c:\temp\setup.exe' -NewName $RenPat"_setup.exe"
}

Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/releases/download/v8.5.3/npp.8.5.3.Installer.x64.exe' -OutFile 'c:\temp\setup.exe'


Get-ChildItem -Path 'c:\temp\' | Where-Object { ($_.Name -like '*_Setup.exe') -and ($_.LastWriteTime -lt (Get-Date).AddMonths(-6)) } | Remove-Item

Answer 2

looks like agood start, ill have a look after lunch ty

to confirm i will manually download the file as name will change and place in a folder.

then run a script to copy that file to my network drive and place in folder renamed as setup.exe

the file already on my network drive called setup.exe will just need to be renamed to lastmonthsetup.exe and left in location

Answer 3

ok this works for renaming my local file to may_setup.exe

but i need my local file to copy to the network share after it has renamed the current setup.exe on network to may_setup.exe

Answer 4

ok so edited your script to just rename my network share, works good.

now presue just add my copy command after to copy my local to destination then should be good

Answer 5

thanks m8, i think thsi is it now

$RenPat = (Get-Culture).DateTimeFormat.GetAbbreviatedMonthName((Get-Date).AddMonths(-1).Month)

if (Test-Path '\\server\name$\receive\setup.exe') {
    Rename-Item '\\server\name$\receive\setup.exe' -NewName $RenPat"_setup.exe"
}


Get-ChildItem -Path 'c:\temp\' | Where-Object { ($_.Name -like '*_Setup.exe') -and ($_.LastWriteTime -lt (Get-Date).AddMonths(-6)) } | Remove-Item

Copy-Item -Path "C:\temp\files2\*" -Destination "\\server\name$\receive\setup.exe"