Powershell: moving items not working when filenames that have chars [ ]

Question

Quick question about moving items with PowerShell: does anyone know why the following script does not work when the filename has the [ or ] chars on it? (ex.: file1[VT].txt)

ls j:\ | foreach { 
  $itemName = $_.Name.Replace('.', ' ') 
  $destination = ls | where { $itemName -match $_.Name } | select -First 1 
  if ($destination -ne $null) {       
    mi $_.PSPath $destination.PSPath -Verbose -WhatIf  
  } 
}

For instance, it will move the file if it's called file1.txt but it will simply ignore files named file1[VT].txt. I'm under the assumption that it's not finding the path to the file when it has chars [ or ] on its name. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Just using -literalpath parameter for move-item

ls j:\ | foreach { 
  $itemName = $_.Name.Replace('.', ' ') 
  $destination = ls | where { $itemName -match $_.Name } | select -First 1 
  if( $destination -ne $null){       
   mi -literalpath $_.PSPath $destination.PSPath -Verbose -WhatIf  
  } 
}