Copy file with different name

[silviyanedelcheva]

Hi all,

I have a task to copy a file located in the powershell directory and paste it in the same directory with different name.
The only solution that worked for me was to get the file locally and uploade it again with the new name. But that is a bit slow(file size is 200 mb).

Are there other ways to do this task?

I checked that in PowerAutomate the task is done by getting the file content and creating new file with different name and set the content, but there is no CLI command for creating file.

In SharePoint UI we could 'copy to' file in the same folder and rename it. But I can't use CLI copy command with same sourceURL and targetURL directory.

Best Regards,
Silviya

[milanholemans]

Hi @silviyanedelcheva

Thank you for your question. You are right, currently you cannot copy a file to the same directory which might not be ideal in your case.
I think this scenario is interesting enough to create a new issue.
The command fails because there is already a file with the same name. However we could provide some extra options on what to do in case of a naming conflict.
For instance we could create a new option --nameConflictBehavior with values: fail, replace, rename. In the latter case, it will create a new file called 'Document1.docx'. Would this solution work for you?

[milanholemans]

I've created a new issue for this #3911. Let's see what the other maintainers think of it.

[silviyanedelcheva]

Hi Milan,

Yes that would work, but for me it will be better to set the name of the copied file directly in the command. Would that be possible?

Thanks.