I have af bunch of csv files (1000+) in a folder.
every csv's have a column that need to be sortet desc.
With my low powershell skills im only abel to do import one file at the time.
"Part of the code":
$csv = Import-Csv $fileA -Encoding "default" | Sort-Object -Property {$_.PrD -as [decimal]}
how do i make this part of the sorting work into multiply files?
The sortig column name is PrD. and scaling between 1 and 99.
Something like this should work:
$csvFiles = "path-to-csv-files"
Get-ChildItem -Path $csvFiles | ForEach-Object { Import-Csv -Path $_.FullName -Encoding "default" | Sort-Object -Property { $_.PrD -as [decimal] } -Descending }
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I have a small script that looks for the two files with the smallest size and exports them to a txt.
The problem is that the result is exported with a "bit weird format".
$checksize = gci -r| sort -descending -property length | select -last 2 name, length | Add-Content -Path C:\log.txt
And the result
#{Name=fileexample.txt; Length=3482342}
#{Name=server.iso; Length=548238474}
I would like only the names of the files and their size to appear.Does anyone know how I could do it?
Thanks.
Good Day
Try to use Out-File instead of Add-Content
#sample path to csv file
$CsvFile = Import-CSV -Path C:\data.csv -Delimiter ";" -Header File,Length
ForEach ($u in $CsvFile)
{
$A = ($u.File).Replace("#{Name=","")
$B = (($u.Length).Replace("Length=","")).Replace("}","")
Write-Host $A $B
}
or export to csv
gci -Path C:\test -r| sort -descending -property length | select -last
2 name, length|Export-Csv C:\log.csv -NoTypeInformation
I have 300 CSV files all separated in a directory.
I want to get one specific criteria from each CSV and put it into another using PowerShell.
This is the line I have, but doesn't seem to work.
Get-ChildItem -Filter "*Results.csv" | Get-Content | Where-Object {$_.NAME -eq "Cage,Johnny"} | Add-Content "test.csv"
I filtered for the specific CSVs I wanted in my directory with gci, Got the content of each using Get-Content and Where the value is Johnny Cage in the NAME column, and Add-Content into a test.csv file but doesn't work.
Any help would be great!
You need to deserialize your CSV text into objects with properties that can be referenced. Then you can compare the Name property. You can do the following if all your csv files have the same headers.
Get-ChildItem -Filter "*Results.csv" | Foreach-Object {
Import-Csv $_.FullName |
Where-Object {$_.NAME -eq "Cage,Johnny"} } |
Export-Csv "test.csv"
If your CSV files contain different headers, then you have a couple of options. One, you could create your output CSV with all possible headers that exist across all files (or just the headers you want as long as they are the same across all files). Second, you could just output your data rows and have a broken CSV.
# Broken CSV Approach
Get-ChildItem -Filter "*Results.csv" | Foreach-Object {
Import-Csv $_.FullName |
Where-Object {$_.NAME -eq "Cage,Johnny"}} | Foreach-Object {
$_ | ConvertTo-Csv -Notype | Select-Object -Skip 1
} | Add-Content test.csv
I think I got it.
Get-ChildItem -Filter *Results.csv |
ForEach-Object{
Import-Csv $_.NAME | ? { $_.EMPLID -eq "Cage,Johnny"}
} | Export-Csv "test.csv"
I have a task that requires to scan the property of all the files indicated by certain directories where the files are stored. I need my code to read the following line of information separated by the delimiter "," stored in a .txt file as follows (the directory is made up by myself on my own device and I went ahead making up some blank .xlsx files to test my code:
Jakarta,C:\\temp\Hfolder,C:\temp\Lfolder
I currently have code that looks like this:
$LocContent = Import-Csv "C:\temp\Location.txt" # -Header $fileHeaders
ForEach($line in $LocContent){C:\temp\test1.csv -NoTypeInformation
#split fields into values
$line = $LocContent -split (",")
$country = $line[0]
$hDrivePath = $line[1]
$lDrivePath = $line[2]
Get-ChildItem $hDrivePath -force -include *.xlsx, *.accdb, *.accde, *.accdt, *.accdr -Recurse
Get-ChildItem $lDrivePath -force -include *.xlsx, *.accdb, *.accde, *.accdt, *.accdr -Recurse
? {
$_.LastWriteTime -gt (Get-Date).AddDays(-5)
}
Select-Object -Property Name, Directory, #{Name="Owner";Expression={(Get-ACL $_.Fullname).Owner}}, CreationTime, LastAccessTime, #{N="Location";E={$country}}, #{N='size in MB';E={$_.Length/1024kb}} | Export-Csv
}
However there is no output on the .csv file I assigned to output the information. What is wrong in my code?
Thanks!
There are several flaws within your code:
The Select has neither an -InputObject nor is anything piped to it so there can't be an output
You should decide whether you treat C:\temp\Location.txt as
a text file with Get-Contentand a split
or as a csv with headers
or without headers and supply them to the import.
The Get-ChildItem output isn't piped anywhere nor stored in a variable so it goes to the screen.
Export-Csv needs a file name to export to.
Try this untested script:
## Q:\Test\2018\06\26\SO_51038180.ps1
$fileHeaders = #('country','hDrivePath','lDrivePath')
$extensions = #('*.xlsx','*.accdb','*.accde','*.accdt','*.accdr')
$LocContent = Import-Csv "C:\temp\Location.txt" -Header $fileHeaders
$NewData = ForEach($Row in $LocContent){
Get-ChildItem $Row.hDrivePath,$Row.lDrivePath -Force -Include $extensions -Recurse |
Where-Object LastWriteTime -gt (Get-Date).AddDays(-5) |
Select-Object -Property Name,
Directory,
#{Name="Owner";Expression={(Get-ACL $_.Fullname).Owner}},
CreationTime,
LastAccessTime,
#{N="Location";E={$Row.country}},
#{N='size in MB';E={$_.Length/1024kb}}
}
# you choose what to do with the result uncomment the desired
$NewData | Format-Table -Auto
# $NewData | Out-Gridview
# $NewData | Export-Csv '.\NewData.csv' -NoTypeInformation
How can I run one single PowerShell script that does the following in series?
Adds a the filename of all csv files in a directory as a column in the end of each file using this script:
Get-ChildItem *.csv | ForEach-Object {
$CSV = Import-CSV -Path $_.FullName -Delimiter ","
$FileName = $_.Name
$CSV | Select-Object *,#{N='Filename';E={$FileName}} | Export-CSV $_.FullName -NTI -Delimiter ","}
Merges all csv files in the directory into a single csv file
Keeping only a header (first row) only from first csv and excluding all other first rows from files.
Similiar to what kemiller2002 has done here, except one script with csv inputs and a csv output.
Bill's answer allows you to combine CSVs, but doesn't tack file names onto the end of each row. I think the best way to do that would be to use the PipelineVariable common parameter to add that within the ForEach loop.
Get-ChildItem \inputCSVFiles\*.csv -PipelineVariable File |
ForEach-Object { Import-Csv $_ | Select *,#{l='FileName';e={$File.Name}}} |
Export-Csv \outputCSVFiles\newOutputFile.csv -NoTypeInformation
That should accomplish what you're looking for.
This is the general pattern:
Get-ChildItem \inputCSVFiles\*.csv |
ForEach-Object { Import-Csv $_ } |
Export-Csv \outputCSVFiles\newOutputFile.csv -NoTypeInformation
Make sure the output CSV file has a different filename pattern, or use a different directory name (like in this example).
If your csv files dont have always same header you can do it :
$Dir="c:\temp\"
#get header first csv file founded
$header=Get-ChildItem $Dir -file -Filter "*.csv" | select -First 1 | Get-Content -head 1
#header + all rows without header into new file
$header, (Get-ChildItem $Dir -file -Filter "*.csv" | %{Get-Content $_.fullname | select -skip 1}) | Out-File "c:\temp\result.csv"
I am trying to do a simple script that pulls in the name of the file and the contents of said text file into a CSV file. I am able to pull in all of the information well enough but it's not splitting up into different columns in the CSV file. When I open up the CSV file in excel everything is in the first column, and I need the two bits of information separated into separate columns. So far my working code is as follows:
$Data = Get-ChildItem -Path c:path -Recurse -Filter *.txt |
where {$_.lastwritetime -gt(Get-Date).addDays`enter code here`(-25)}
$outfile = "c:path\test.csv"
rm $outfile
foreach ($info in $Data) {
$content = Get-Content $info.FullName
echo "$($info.BaseName) , $content" >> $outfile
}
I figured out how to seperate the information by rows but I need it by columns. I'm new to powershell and can't seem to get past this little speed bump. Any input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Output:
Itm# , TextContent
Itm2 , NextTextContent
What I need:
Itm# | Text Content |
Itm2 | NextTextContent |
Except for a few syntactical errors your code appears to be working as expected. I worry if you are having issues in Excel with you text import. I touched up your code a bit but it is functionally the same as what you had.
$Data = Get-ChildItem -Path "C:\temp" -Recurse -Filter *.txt |
Where-Object {$_.LastWriteTime -gt (Get-Date).addDays(-25)}
$outfile = "C:\temp\test.csv"
If(Test-Path $outfile){Remove-Item $outfile -Force}
foreach ($info in $Data) {
$content = Get-Content $info.FullName
"$($info.BaseName) , $content" | Add-Content $outfile
}
I don't know what version of Excel you have but look for the text import wizard.
Do you mean something like this?
Get-ChildItem -Path C:\path -Recurse -Filter *.txt |
Where-Object { $_.LastWriteTime -gt (Get-Date).AddDays(-25) } | ForEach-Object {
New-Object PSObject -Property #{
"Itm#" = $_.FullName
"TextContent" = Get-Content $_.FullName
} | Select-Object Itm#,TextContent
} | Export-Csv List.csv -NoTypeInformation
Excel will treat the data in csv files which are delimited bij the ; as a single columns.
I always use the -delimiter switch on export-csv or convertto-csv to set this as a delimiter.