Good morning,
Hopefully this will be a quick and easy one to answer.
I am trying to run a PS script and have it export to csv based on a list of IP addresses from a text file. At the moment, it will run but only produce one csv.
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$computers = get-content "pathway.txt"
$source = "\\$computer\c$"
foreach ($computer in $computers) {
Get-ChildItem -Path "\\$Source\c$" -Recurse -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue |
Select-Object Name,Extension,FullName,CreationTime,LastAccessTime,LastWriteTime,Length |
Export-CSV -Path "C:\path\$computer.csv" -NoTypeInformation
}
Edit
The script is now creating the individual server files as needed and I did change the source .txt file to list the servers by HostName rather than IP. The issue now is that no data is populating in the .csv files. It will create them but nothing populates. I have tried different source file paths to see if maybe its due to folder permissions or just empty but nothing seems to populate in the files.
The $computer file lists a number of server IP addresses so the script should run against each IP and then write out to a separate csv file with the results, naming the csv file the individual IP address accordingly.
Does anyone see any errors in the script that I provided, that would prevent it from writing out to a separate csv with each run? I feel like it has something to do with the foreach loop but I cannot seem to isolate where I am going wrong.
Also, I cannot use any third-party software as this is a closed network with very strict FW rules so I am left with powershell (which is okay). And yes this will be a very long run for each of the servers but I am okay with that.
Edit
I did forget to mention that when I run the script, I get an error indicating that the export-csv path is too long which doesn't make any sense unless it is trying to write all of the IP addresses to a single name.
"Export-CSV : The specified path, file name, or both are too long. The fully qualified file name must be less than 260 characters, and the directory name must be less than 248 characters.
At line:14 char:1
TIA
Running the script against C: Drive of each computer is strongly not advisable that too with Recurse option. But for your understanding, this is how you should pass the values to the variables. I haven't tested this code.
$computer = get-content "pathway.txt"
foreach ($Source in $computer) {
Get-ChildItem -Path "\\$Source\c$" -Recurse -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue |
Select-Object Name,Extension,FullName,CreationTime,LastAccessTime,LastWriteTime,Length | Export-Csv -Path "C:\Path\$source.csv" -NoTypeInformation
}
$computer will hold the whole content and foreach will loop the content and $source will get one IP at a time. I also suggest instead of IP's you can have hostname so that your output file have servername.csv for each server.
In hopes that this helps someone else. I have finally got the script to run and create the individual .csv files for each server hostname.
$servers = Get-Content "path"
Foreach ($server in $servers)
{
Get-ChildItem -Path "\\$server\c$" -Recurse -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue |
Select-Object Name,Extension,FullName,CreationTime,LastAccessTime,LastWriteTime,Length |
Export-CSV -Path "path\$server.csv" -NoTypeInformation
}
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I'm wanting to improve on my script to be able to accomplish the following:
Scan servers based on get-adcomputer on specific OUs.
Scan each server based on whatever drive letter it has.
Scan each server for log4j.
Export all results to a CSV that identifies the folder path, name of file, and the server that the file was found on.
I have been using the following code to start with:
$Servers = Get-ADComputer -Filter * -SearchBase "OU=..." | Select -ExpandProperty Name
foreach ($server in $Servers){
Invoke-Command -ComputerName $Server -ScriptBlock {
$Drives = (Get-PSDrive -PSProvider FileSystem).Root
foreach ($drive in $Drives){
Get-ChildItem -Path $drive -Force -Filter *log4j* -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | '
foreach{
$Item = $_
$Type = $_.Extension
$Path = $_.FullName
$Folder = $_.PSIsContainer
$Age = $_.CreationTime
$Path | Select-Object `
#{n="Name";e={$Item}}, `
#{n="Created";e={$Age}},`
#{n="FilePath";e={$Path}},`
#{n="Extension";e={if($Folder){"Folder"}else{$Type}}}`
} | Export-Csv C:\Results.csv -NoType
}
}
I am having the following issues and would like to address them to learn.
How would I be able to get the CSV to appear the way I want, but have it collect the information and store it on my machine instead of having it on each local server?
I have noticed extreme performance issues on the remote hosts when running this. WinRM takes 100% of the processor while it is running. I have tried -Include first, then -Filter, but to no avail. How can this be improved so that at worst, it's solely my workstation that's eating the performance hit?
What exactly do the ` marks do?
I agree with #SantiagoSquarzon - that's going to be a performance hit.
Consider using writing a function to run Get-ChildItem recursively with the -MaxDepth parameter, including a Start-Sleep command to pause occasionally. Also, you may want to note this link
You'd also want to Export-CSV to a shared network drive to collect all the machines' results.
The backticks indicate a continuation of the line, like \ in bash.
Finally, consider using a Scheduled Task or start a powershell sub-process with a lowered process priority, maybe that will help?
Goal: Update text entry on one line within many files distributed on a server
Summary: As part of an application migration between datacenters the .rdp files on end-user desktops need to be updated to point to the new IP address of their Remote Desktop Server. All the .rdp files reside on Windows servers in a redirected folders SMB share where I have Administrative access.
Powershell experience: minimal. Still trying to wrap my head around the way variables, output and piping work.
Was originally trying to make a single line of powershell code to complete this task but got stuck and had to make script file with the two lines of code below.
-Line 1: Search for all .rdp files in the folder structure and store the full path with file name in a variable. Every file will be checked since the users tend to accidentally change file names, eliminating absolute predictability.
-Line 2: I want to make one pass through all the files to replace only instances of two particular IP addresses with the new address. Then write the changes into the original file.
$Path = ls 'C:\Scripts\Replace-RDP\TESTFILES\' -Include *.rdp -Recurse -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | foreach fullname
$Path | (Get-Content -Path $Path) -Replace 'IPserver1','newIPserver1' -Replace 'IPserver2','newIPserver2' | Set-Content $Path -Force
Have found most of the solution with Powershell but have a problem with the results. The second line of code when output to the screen changes contents correctly in memory. The content written to file however resulted in the new server IP address being written into ALL rdp files even if the source rdp file's target IP address doesn't match the -Replace criterion.
Text inside a .rdp on the relevant line is:
full address:s:192.168.1.123
changes to:
full address:s:172.16.1.23
Thank you for all assistance in reaching the endpoint. Have spent hours learning from various sites and code snippets.
You need to keep track of each file that you are reading so that you can save changes to that file. Foreach-Object makes this process easy. Inside of the Foreach-Object script block, the current object $_ is the FullName value for each of your files.
$CurrentIP1 = '192\.168\.1\.123'
$CurrentIP2 = '192\.168\.1\.124'
$NewIP1 = '172.16.1.23'
$NewIP2 = '172.16.1.24'
$files = (Get-ChildItem 'C:\Scripts\Replace-RDP\TESTFILES\' -Filter *.rdp -Recurse -Force -File -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue).FullName
$files | Foreach-Object {
if (($contents = Get-Content $_) -match "$CurrentIP1|$CurrentIP2") {
$contents -replace $CurrentIP1,$NewIP1 -replace $CurrentIP2,$NewIP2 |
Set-Content $_
}
}
Note that using the -File switch on Get-ChildItem (alias ls) outputs only files. Since -replace uses regex to do matching, you must backslash escape literal . characters.
I have got a set of txt files in a directory that I want to merge together.
The contents of all the txt files are in the same format as follows:
IPAddress Description DNSDomain
--------- ----------- ---------
{192.168.1.2} Microsoft Hyper-V Network Adapter
{192.168.1.30} Microsoft Hyper-V Network Adapter #2
I have the below code that combines all the txt files in to one txt file called all.txt.
copy *.txt all.txt
From this all.txt I can't see what lines came from what txt file. Any ideas on any bits of code that would add an extra column to the end txt file with the file name the rows come from?
As per the comments above, you've put the output of Format-Table into a text file. Note that Format-Table might be visually structured on screen, but is just lines of text. By doing that you have made it harder to work with the data.
If you just want a few properties from the results of the Get-WMIObject cmdlet, use Select-Object which (in the use given here) will effectively filter the data for just the properties you want.
Instead of writing text to a simple file, you can preserve the tabular nature of the data by writing to a structured file (i.e. CSV):
Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration -Filter IPEnabled=TRUE -ComputerName SERVERNAMEHERE |
Select-Object PSComputerName, IPAddress, Description, DNSDomain |
Export-Csv 'C:\temp\server.csv'
Note that we were able to include the PScomputerName property in each line of data, effectively giving you the extra column of data you wanted.
So much for getting the raw data. One way you could read in all the CSV data and write it out again might look like this:
Get-ChildItem *.csv -Exclude all.csv |
Foreach-Object {Import-Csv $_} |
Export-Csv all.csv
Note that we exclude the output file in the initial cmdlet to avoid reading and writing form/to the same file endlessly.
If you don't have the luxury to collect the data again you'll need to spool the files together. Spooling files together is done with Get-Content, something like this:
Get-ChildItem *.txt -Exclude all.txt |
Foreach-Object {Get-Content $_ -Raw} |
Out-File all.txt
In your case, you wanted to suffix each line, which tricker as you need to process the files line-by-line:
$files = Get-ChildItem *.txt
foreach($file in $files) {
$lines = Get-Content $file
foreach($line in $lines) {
"$line $($file.Name)" | Out-File all.txt -Append
}
}
I want to start by saying coding is a bit outside of my skill set but because a certain problem keeps appearing at work, I'm trying to automate a solution.
I use the below script to read an input file for a list of name, search the C:\ for those files, then write the path to an output file if any are found.
foreach($line in Get-Content C:\temp\InPutfile.txt) {
if($line -match $regex){
gci -Path "C:\" -recurse -Filter $line -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue |
Out-File -Append c:\temp\ResultsFindFile.txt
}
}
I would like to make two modifications to this. First, to search all drives connected to the computer not just C:\. Next, be able to delete any found files. I'm using the Remove-Item -confirm command but so far can't make it delete the file it just found.
I have 200 PC that need to have some specific icons removed.
I created a CSV file with the ComputerName (1 name per row)
I have another file with the file name of the icon that needs to be removed from the desktops (Shortcut1.lnk, etc). This other file is also a CSV (1 file name per row).
How can I run a PowerShell script to remove those icons. (Please note that not all computers in my CSV file maybe turned on. Some maybe off or have network issues).
$SOURCE = "C:\powershell\shortcuts"
$DESTINATION = "c$\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop"
$LOG = "C:\powershell\logs\logsremote_copy.log"
$REMOVE = Get-Content C:\powershell\shortcuts-removal.csv
Remove-Item $LOG -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
$computerlist = Get-Content C:\powershell\computer-list.csv
foreach ($computer in $computerlist) {
foreach ($file in $REMOVE) {
Remove-Item "\\$computer\$DESTINATION\$file" -Recurse
}
}
This is my code so far but it doesn't appear to delete the files from
\\computername\c$\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop
I am getting errors and warnings. The log file also doesn't seem to be creating.
Anyway to get a report of what was deleted. what was not deleted?
Change this, you already specify a slash in your $destination variable, you are double up # \\c$
Remove-Item "\\$computer$DESTINATION\$file" -Recurse
otherwise, you are trying to delete this path and failing.
\\computername\\c$\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\$file