How find a file with part of his name in PowerShell - powershell

Question

I'm new to PowerShell and on StackOverflow.
I'm trying to write a script which gives me the Total Path to a *.pdf file,
My File Name is in a variable (I get it before with previous part of code) for example : $myVariable.Nom
After I try to find my file with this:
Get-ChildItem -Path "c:\myPath\" -Filter $myVariable.Nom
But it doesn't work. I think I have a mistake where I try to filter with my File Name in the ChildItem command but don't know how to use it correctly.
The goal is (if myVariable.Nom = "TOTO" for example) to have c:\myPath\TOTO.pdf
Can anyone help me ?
Thanks.

Answer 1

The -Filter parameter on Get-ChildItem supports a wildcard search using * or ?. Your code is pretty close to what you're looking for, you just need to add *.
Get-ChildItem -Path "c:\myPath\" -Filter "*$($myVariable.Nom)*"
Note that I'm using * at the beginning and end of the variable, meaning that the filter should search for any Item that contains the string in your variable.
In your example, you know that the File Name is TOTO so you could use * only at the end of the Filter:
-Filter "$($myVariable.Nom)*"
Remember that you can add the -Recurse flag on Get-ChildItem if you want to search recursively.
Now if you want to get the FullName (Total Path) you can use any of the examples below:
# Example 1
(Get-ChildItem -Path "c:\myPath\" -Filter "*$($myVariable.Nom)*").FullName
# Example 2
$var = Get-ChildItem -Path "c:\myPath\" -Filter "*$($myVariable.Nom)*"
$var.FullName
# Example 3
Get-ChildItem -Path "c:\myPath\" -Filter "*$($myVariable.Nom)*" |
Select-Object -Expand FullName
Edit
Following your second question, how to deal with a CSV with no headers:
$path = 'C:\path\to\csv.csv'
# Note: I'm using -Delimiter ';' because as you have shown,
# you are using semicolon as delimiter, however, if the delimiter
# are commas there is no need to use it.
$csv = Import-Csv $path -Delimiter ';' -Header 'Name','Qte'
# Now you can loop through it to find the files:
foreach($file in $csv)
{
$var = Get-ChildItem -Path "c:\myPath\" -Filter "*$($file.Name)*"
0..$file.Qte | foreach-object {
$var.FullName
}
}

Answer 2

Thank you for your answers : It's work fine !!
Now i want to improve it a litle bit : In my CSV i have 2 column : in the previous example i called the first column "Name" this is why i used myVariable.Name) for example:
Name;Qte
TOTO;1
TITI;3
Now how i can select the first column if i didn't have name on first line ?
file like this one for example :
TOTO;1
TITI;3
Thank you