Powershell Rename File to Original Filename

Question

Ok so I have a script:

gc .\oauthrn.cms |
    % {
        $a=@();
        $b="";
        $a += $_.split('|'); 
        for ($i=0;$i -lt 168; $i++) 
        {
            $b += $a[$i] + '|'
        } 
        $b
    } |
    % {
        $_.TrimEnd("|")
    } |
    out-file "H:\Documentation\Scripts\Pipe Delimiter Project\ShineyNewFile.txt" -encoding ASCII

gc .\oauthrn1.cms |
    % {
        $a=@();
        $b="";
        $a += $_.split('|'); 
        for ($i=0;$i -lt 168; $i++) 
        {
            $b += $a[$i] + '|'
        } 
        $b
    } |
    % {
        $_.TrimEnd("|")
    } |
    out-file "H:\Documentation\Scripts\Pipe Delimiter Project\ShineyNewFile1.txt" -encoding ASCII

Problem

So basically I would like to rename the file the original name, but when I name the ShineyNewFile, oauthrn, it doesn't output anything in the file.

I imagine it's because it's still looking at that file to output during the out-file statement...

Does anyone have any insight on this? Is my assumption correct? Is there some way to handle this keeping the syntax I am currently using? I am new to powershell, but it is a great tool.

Answer 1

So, I'm not sure why you have most of that in the script since the TrimEnd gets rid of all the extra pipe characters from the last question you asked that I saw, but anyway, does this do what you want?

gc .\oauthrn.cms |
    % {$_.TrimEnd("|")} |
    out-file "H:\Documentation\Scripts\Pipe Delimiter Project\ShineyNewFile.txt" -encoding ascii
Rename-Item "H:\Documentation\Scripts\Pipe Delimiter Project\ShineyNewFile.txt" "oauthrn.cms"

gc .\oauthrn1.cms |
    % {$_.TrimEnd("|")} |
    out-file "H:\Documentation\Scripts\Pipe Delimiter Project\ShineyNewFile1.txt" -encoding ascii
Rename-Item "H:\Documentation\Scripts\Pipe Delimiter Project\ShineyNewFile1.txt" "oauthrn1.cms"