Is there way to use rename-item on a files that do not have an extension?

Question

I am trying to rename a file and then copy a file to that location, the error I am getting is that

Rename-Item : Cannot rename because item at .... does not exist.

The issue I believe is that the file does not have an extension, so I have something like:

rename-item "\\$serverName\c$\temp\filename" -NewName filename.$currentdate

Answer 1

Hm, I doubt it is because of no extension. Rename-Item works fine with such files or folders.

In your example, you are missing one \ at the beginning, there should be two of them.

Anyway if you want to be sure, you may use following (you should have variable $currentdate already populated):

$name = '\\$serverName\c$\temp\filename'
Get-Item $name | Rename-Item -NewName "filename.$currentdate"

With those two commands you will see if it fails on Get-Item or on Rename-Item.