I have N different directories (titles are random and do not have test pattern in string)
C:\Folder\test1\file.txt
C:\Folder\test2\file.txt
...
C:\Folder\testN\file.txt
I want to count number of file.txt files in Folder dir in all test1..testN subdirectories using powershell, in example C:\Folder\*\file.txt
I started with below code, but it counts all files
Write-Host ( Get-ChildItem C:\Folder | Measure-Object ).Count;
Could you pls help?
Updated: I dont need file.txt files in test1...N subfolders, only in test1...N folder In example - C:\Folder\*\file.txt, but not C:\Folder\*\abc\file.txt
If I understand the question properly, you would like to get the count of all *.txt files inside a rootfolder, 1 level deep, where the direct parent foldername is called testX (X is a sequence number).
You have a structure like this:
C:\FOLDER
+---test1
| | file1.txt
| |
| \---abc
| file1.txt
|
+---test2
| file1.txt
|
\---test3
file1.txt
For that you can use
(Get-ChildItem -Path 'C:\Folder' -Filter '*.txt' -Depth 1 |
Where-Object { $_.Directory.Name -match '^test\d+$' }).Count
which in the example structure above returns 3
Edited: I think I got what you want now.
Clear-Host
$TestPath = "C:\Folder"
$FileCnt = 0
$Dirs = Get-ChildItem -Path "$TestPath" -Directory
ForEach ($Dir in $Dirs) {
$FileCnt += (Get-ChildItem -Path "$($($Dir).FullName)\*.*" -Filter "file.txt" |
Measure-Object).count
}
$FileCnt
PMental's solution below is more elegant but this also works.
HTH
This should do it:
(Get-ChildItem C:\Folder -Filter file.txt -File -Recurse -Depth 1 | Measure-Object).Count
or if you only want text files from the subfolders and not from C:\Folder itself, this one:
$Path = 'C:\Folder'
$Files = Get-ChildItem $Path -Filter file.txt -File -Recurse -Depth 1 |
Where-Object PSParentPath -notlike "*::$Path"
($Files | Measure-Object).Count
Edited: Edited to only count "file.txt" files.
You're close, this should get you the total count of file.txt files any folder C:\Folder\Test*
Write-Host ( Get-ChildItem C:\folder\test* -Directory | Get-ChildItem -Include file.txt | Measure-Object ).Count
Related
I have a folder that has a bunch of backups in in separated by folder. I want a script to use the directory (C:\Users\user\Desktop\TEST) and in that directory I have any number of folders with any number of files in them, I only want to keep the latest in the folder for every folder in the directory and delete the rest.
I have this but it only does 1 folder at a time and it has to be hardcoded.
$path = "C:\Users\user\Desktop\TEST\Folder1"
$FileNumber = (get-childitem $path).count - 1
get-childitem -path $path | sort CreationTime -Descending | select -last $FileNumber | Remove-Item -Force -WhatIf
Is there any way to automate this?
Thanks,
You can try this:
$Path = "C:\Users\user\Desktop\TEST"
$Folders = Get-ChildItem $Path
foreach ($Folder in $Folders)
{
$FolderName = $Folder.FullName
$Files = Get-ChildItem -Path $FolderName
$FileNumber = $Files.Count - 1
$Files | sort CreationTime -Descending | select -last $FileNumber | Remove-Item -Force -WhatIf
}
You would need a loop of your choice to accomplish this, this example uses ForEach-Object. Instead of using Select-Object -Last N you could just use Select-Object -Skip 1 to skip the newest file. Also note the use of -Directory and -File with Get-ChildItem to filter only directories or only files.
$path = "C:\Users\user\Desktop\TEST\Folder1"
# Get all Directories in `$path`
Get-ChildItem $path -Directory | ForEach-Object {
# For each Directory, get the Files
Get-ChildItem $_.FullName -File |
# Sort them from Newest to Oldest
Sort-Object CreationTime -Descending |
# Skip the first 1 (the newest)
Select-Object -Skip 1 |
# Remove the rest
Remove-Item -Force -WhatIf
}
I am trying to use powershell to produce a list of folder names and how many files are in each folder.
I have this script
$dir = "C:\Users\folder"
Get-ChildItem $dir -Recurse -Directory | ForEach-Object{
[pscustomobject]#{
Folder = $_.FullName
Count = #(Get-ChildItem -Path $_.Fullname -File).Count
}
} | Select-Object Folder,Count
Which lists the file count, but it puts the full path (i.e. C:\Users\name\Desktop\1\2\-movi...). Is there any way to just display the last folder ("movies") as well as save the result to a .txt file?
Thank you
Instead of $_.FullName, use $_.Name to only get the directory name.
Your Select-Object call is redundant - it is effectively a no-op.
While it's easy to send the results to a .txt file with >, for instance, it's better to use a more structured format for later programmatic processing.
In the simplest form, that means outputting to a CSV file via Export-Csv; generally, however, the most faithful way of serializing objects to a file is to use Export-CliXml.
Using Export-Csv for serialization:
$dir = 'C:\Users\folder'
Get-ChildItem -LiteralPath $dir -Recurse -Directory | ForEach-Object {
[pscustomobject] #{
Folder = $_.Name
Count = #(Get-ChildItem -LiteralPath $_.Fullname -File).Count
}
} | Export-Csv -NoTypeInformation results.csv
Note that you could streamline your command by replacing the ForEach-Object call with a Select-Object call that uses a calculated property:
$dir = 'C:\Users\folder'
Get-ChildItem -LiteralPath $dir -Recurse -Directory |
Select-Object Name,
#{ n='Count'; e={#(Get-ChildItem -LiteralPath $_.Fullname -File).Count} } |
Export-Csv -NoTypeInformation results.csv
You mean something like this...
Clear-Host
Get-ChildItem -Path 'd:\temp' -Recurse -Directory |
Select-Object Name,FullName,
#{Name='FileCount';Expression = {(Get-ChildItem -Path $_.FullName -File -Recurse| Measure-Object).Count}} `
| Format-Table -AutoSize
# Results
Name FullName FileCount
---- -------- ---------
abcpath0 D:\temp\abcpath0 5
abcpath1 D:\temp\abcpath1 5
abcpath2 D:\temp\abcpath2 5
Duplicates D:\temp\Duplicates 12677
EmptyFolder D:\temp\EmptyFolder 0
NewFiles D:\temp\NewFiles 4
PngFiles D:\temp\PngFiles 4
results D:\temp\results 905
...
I have a folder structure with, for example, 100 folders. Each folder has 200 files in it.
I would like to delete (via scheduled task) all files in each folder but keep the last 10 versions of it.
I am trying to upskill in Powershell so I am guessing that this should be pretty simple. I have created this script,
#Delete all files, keep last 10 versions#
$Directory = "D:\Octopus\Packages"
$Keep = "10"
Get-ChildItem $Directory| ?{ $_.PSIsContainer } | Select-Object FullName | Export-Csv $Directory\FolderList.csv
$FolderList = import-csv $Directory\FolderList.csv
ForEach ($row in $FolderList)
{
Get-ChildItem -Recurse | where{-not $_.PsIsContainer}| sort CreationTime -desc | select -Skip $Keep | Remove-Item -Force
}
It appears to be looping through each folder, but keeping the last 10 files for the entire folder structure, not per folder. So some folders have 0 files, some may have 2 files, some may have 8 files.
Any pointers would be appreciated
Thanks !
If you actually need to have that CSV then just modify Get-ChildItem -Recurse to Get-ChildItem $row -recurse. However, if you don't need to be creating the CSV, you can remove of that and just pipe the results of your first Get-ChildItem into the next action.
$Directory = "D:\Octopus\Packages"
$Keep = "10"
Get-ChildItem $Directory| ?{ $_.PSIsContainer } | Select-Object FullName |
ForEach-object {Get-ChildItem $_.fullname -Recurse |
where{-not $_.PsIsContainer}| sort CreationTime -desc |
select -Skip $Keep | Remove-Item -Force }
We use software called Revit, files are saved as such: filename.rvt
Each time a user edits a file, Revit takes it upon itself to save the old file in the format filename.xxxx.rvt (where xxx is a number).
Over time when files are edited hundreds of times, we have many unnecessary files on the file server.
I am writing a script to:
Locate and folders containing Revit backup files
Delete all but the most recently modified 5 revit backup files
I have tried two approaches below
$searchpath = "e:\"
# Find a unique list of directories that contains a revit backup file (*.*.rvt)
$a = Get-ChildItem -Path $searchpath -Include *.*.rvt -Recurse | Select-object Directory -expandproperty FullName | Get-Unique -AsString
# For each folder that contains a single revit backup file (*.*.rvt)...
# - Sort by modified time
# - Select all except first 5
$a | Get-ChildItem -Include *.*.rvt | Sort-Object LastWriteTime -descending | select-object -skip 5 -property Directory,Name,CreationTime,LastWriteTime | Out-GridView -Title "Old Backups" -PassThru
The issue with this approach is that it only "skips" the first 5 files in the entire search result, not 5 in each folder.
Then I went about it using a loop, and this gets nowhere:
$searchpath = "e:\"
# Find a unique list of directories that contains a revit backup file (*.*.rvt)
$a = Get-ChildItem -Path $searchpath -Include *.*.rvt -Recurse | Select Directory | Get-Unique -AsString
# For each folder that contains a single revit backup file (*.*.rvt)...
# - Sort by modified time
# - Select all except first 5
$a | foreach {
$b += Get-ChildItem -Path $_.Directory.FullName -Include *.*.rvt | Sort-Object LastWriteTime -descending | select-object -skip 5 -property Directory,Name,CreationTime,LastWriteTime
}
$b | Out-GridView -Title "Old Backups" -PassThru
Any thoughts on the correct approach and whats going wrong?
try this:
get-childitem -file -recurse | group Directory | where Count -gt 5 | %{
$_.Group | Sort LastWriteTime -descending | select -skip 5 Directory,Name,CreationTime,LastWriteTime
} | Out-GridView -Title "Old Backups"
If you want delete you can do it (remove what if)
gci -file -recurse | group Directory | where Count -gt 5 | %{
$_.Group | Sort LastWriteTime -descending | select -skip 5 | remove-item -WhatIf
}
The key to do what you seek is to use the Group-Object cmdlet.
In your case, the group you want to create is a group containing all items in the same folder. This will give you something like this:
From there, you can perform actions on each group, such as selecting all the files while skipping the first 5 of each folders and deleting the remaining.
See this simple minimalist example:
$Path = 'C:\__TMP\1'
$Items = Get-ChildItem -Path "$path\*.rvt" -Recurse | Group-Object -Property PsparentPath
Foreach ($ItemsGroup in $Items) {
$SortedFiles = $ItemsGroup.Group | sort LastWriteTime -Descending
$SortedFiles | Select-Object -Skip 5 | % {Write-host "Deleting $($_.FullName)"; Remove-Item $_.FullName}
}
Try something like this:
$searchpath = "E:\"
$number = 5
$directories = Get-ChildItem -Path $searchpath -Include *.*.rvt -Recurse | Where-Object {$_.PsIsContainer}
foreach ($dir in $directories)
{
$files = Get-ChildItem -Path $dir.FullName | Where-Object {-not $_.PsIsContainer}
if ($files.Count -gt $number)
{
$files | Sort-Object CreationTime | Select-Object -First ($files.Count - $number) | Remove-Item -Force
}
}
Change the placeholders accordingly. I just gave you the logical approach.
An alternative solution that doesn't require grouping first and instead processes each directory separately:
& { Get-Item $path; Get-ChildItem -Directory -Recurse $path } | # get all dirs.
ForEach-Object { # for each dir.
Get-ChildItem -File $_.FullName/*.*.rvt | # get backup files in dir.
Sort-Object -Descending LastWriteTime | # sort by last-write time, newest first
Select-Object -Skip 5 | # skip the 5 newest
Remove-Item -Force -WhatIf # delete
}
Note: The -WhatIf common parameter in the command above previews the operation. Remove -WhatIf once you're sure the operation will do what you want.
Hi all I have my folder structure as follows
D:\Exclude
Include
Include1
Exclude
Include
What I need is I would like to filter the directory Include1\Exclude this is what I tried which is not working
$Path ="D:\Exclude"
$DirList = Get-ChildItem -Path "$Path" -Recurse | where {$_.DirectoryName -ne "D:\Exclude\Include1\Exclude"}
$DirList
Use the .FullName property instead of Directory name, like so.
dir $path -Recurse | measure | select Count
Count
-----
4
PS C:\users\Stephen> dir $path -Recurse | ? FullName -ne "R:\Exclude\Include1\Exclude" |
>> measure | select Count
Count
-----
3
use a like with path of your dir to exclude dir and file
Get-ChildItem "D:\Exclude" -Recurse | where FullName -NotLike "D:\Exclude\Include1\Exclude\*"
#short version
gci "D:\Exclude" -Rec | ? FullName -NotLike "D:\Exclude\Include1\Exclude\*"