For example, I want the contents of the "Last" folder in the structure below. The various path structures are identical except for the first two levels.
C:\zyx-wvu\abc\Level3\Last
C:\tsr-qpo\def\Level3\Last
C:\nml-kji\ghi\Level3\Last
In PowerShell I get close with:
Get-ChildItem -Path C:\*-*\*
...but it doesn't return any results (as in it never finishes) when I try:
Get-ChildItem -Path C:\*-*\*\Level3
Get-ChildItem -Path C:\*-*\*
will only show you what's in the second layer behind anything with a hyphen in c:\
aka it will show
c:\1-2\alpha
c:\1-5\beta
etc...
What you want is
Get-ChildItem -Path C:\*-*\*\*
or more likely you want
Get-ChildItem -Path C:\*-*\* -recurse
if you want to find paths with the SAME name... you could group them together, and pull out anything with more than one finding... you didn't ask very specifically what you wanted, but here's some ideas.
get-childitem -Path c:\*-*\*\* | group-object -property basename | where count -gt 1 | select -expand group
Related
If I execute:
Get-ChildItem *.ext -recurse
the output consists of a series of Directory sections followed by one or more columns of info for each matching file separated by said directory sections. Is there something like the Unix find command? In which each matching file name appears on a single line with its full relative path?
Get-Childitem by default outputs a view for format-table defined in a format xml file somewhere.
get-childitem | format-table
get-childitem | format-list *
shows you the actual properties in the objects being output. See also How to list all properties of a PowerShell object . Then you can pick and choose the ones you want. This would give the full pathname:
get-childitem | select fullname
If you want an output to be just a string and not an object:
get-childitem | select -expand fullname
get-childitem | foreach fullname
Resolve-Path with the -Relative switch can be used to display the relative paths of a set of paths. You can collect the full path names (FullName property) from the Get-ChildItem command and use the member access operator . to grab the path values only.
Resolve-Path -Path (Get-ChildItem -Filter *.ext -Recurse).FullName -Relative
Note: The relative paths here only accurately reflect files found within the current directory (Get-ChildItem -Path .), i.e. Get-ChildItem -Path NotCurrentDirectory could have undesirable results.
Get-ChildItem's -Name switch does what you want:
It outputs the relative paths (possibly including subdir. components) of matching files as strings (type [string]).
# Lists file / dir. paths as *relative paths* (strings).
# (relative to the input dir, which is implicitly the current one here).
Get-ChildItem -Filter *.ext -Recurse -Name
Note that I've used -Filter, which significantly speeds up the traversal.
Caveat: As of PowerShell 7.0, -Name suffers from performance problems and behavioral quirks; see these GitHub issues:
https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/9014
https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/9119
https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/9126
https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/9122
https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/9120
I am having some problem passing the path plus filename to a parser. There are about 90 files of 1 GB each involved in my task. Each of the file is contained in a folder of its own. All of the folders are contained under a parent folder.
Goal: Ideally, I would like to parse 20 files simultaneously for multitasking and continue to the next 20 until all 90 files are done.
This would mean that I would like to spawn some concurrent parsing of 20 files in a batch at any one given time. In carrying out the parsing, I would like to use measure-command to time the work from beginning to finish.
Script I have used:
Get-ChildItem –Path "E:\\OoonaFTP\\input\\Videos3\\" -Filter *.mp4 -recurse | select -expand fullname
Foreach-Object {
Measure-Command { "E:\OoonaFTP\Ooona_x64_ver_2.5.13\OoonaParser.exe -encode -dat -drm $_.FullName" } | Select-Object -Property TotalSeconds
}
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I have this working batch script with a for statement but doing each iteration one after another. This is not what is the ideal case though. I would really like to accomplish this in PowerShell and with simultaneous tasks.
Could someone please suggest some ways by which I could accomplish this?
Thank you very much!
Thanks for the various suggestions. I'm curious that some of them lead to empty output in my Powershell (PSVersion: 5.1.18362.145).
I tried a number of these and, inspired by some of them, found the best answer for my case at the moment:
Get-ChildItem *.ext -recurse | Select-Object -property fullname
(When I made the window wide enough I got all the info I needed; in general I suppose I might need to do more to get the formatting I want.)
I am looking for a way to count files from many sub-folders but the tricky part is that i want to filter them by part of their names. To be more specific, all files have a date at the middle of their names. If I want to just count the files within a specific folder I use this:
dir * |%{$_.Name.SubString(7,8)} | group |select name,count|ft -auto
And works like a charm. The problem lies that it cannot see more than one folder. Also a second problem is that in the result, I want to see the path name of the grouped counts. I am also testing this:
dir -recurse | ?{ $_.PSIsContainer } | %{ Write-Host $_.FullName (dir $_.FullName | Measure-Object).Count }
but I cannot implement the date filter from inside the name in this functions. I am also attaching an example of how is the format and how I would like the results.
Any help?
I am looking for a way to count files from many sub-folders but the tricky part is that I want to filter them by part of their names. To be more specific, all files have a date at the middle of their names.
It is not 100% clear to me, if you really want to filter them or to group them before counting, so I'll show both.
Assuming that this middle of their names is, e.g., delimited by _ this can be achieved the following way:
# C:/temp/testFolder/myName_123_folder/text.txt
Get-ChildItem * -Recurse |
Select-Object -Property Name, #{Name = "CustomDate"; Expression = {$_.Name.Split("_")[1]}} |
#This is how you would _filter_
#Where-Object {$_.Custom -eq "123"} |
Group-Object -Property CustomDate |
Select-Object Name, Count
Don't forget to check if the file name matches this pattern, before splitting. This can be done with a Select-Object statement between gci and 1. select, which checks the file name for your specific pattern.
Your question shows also that you wanted to filter for only directories:
dir -recurse | ?{ $_.PSIsContainer } | %{ #[...]
Which is not very efficient.
From the Docs of Get-ChildItem:
-Directory
Gets directories (folders).
To get only directories, use the -Directory parameter and omit the -File parameter. To exclude directories, use the -File parameter and omit the -Directory parameter, or use the -Attributes parameter.
This means, the preferred way to search only for Directories is:
Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Directory | % { #[...]
I need to search through 350,000 files to find any that contains certain patterns in the filename. However, the list of patterns (id numbers) that it needs to match is 1000! So I would very much like to be able to script this, because they were originally planning on doing it manually...
So to make it clearer:
Check each File in folder and all subfolders.
If the filename contains any of the IDs in the text file then move it to another file
Otherwise, ignore it.
So I have the basic code that works with a single value:
$name = Get-Content 'C:\test\list.txt'
get-childitem -Recurse -path "c:\test\source\" -filter "*$name*" |
move-item -Destination "C:\test\Destination"
If I change $name to point to a single ID, it works, if I have a single ID in the txt file, it works. Multiple items in a list:
1111111
2222222
3333333
It fails. What am I doing wrong? How can I get it to work? I'm still new to powershell so please be a little more descriptive in any answers.
Your test fails because it is effectively trying to do this (using your test data).
Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Path "c:\test\source\" -filter "*1111111 2222222 3333333*"
Which obviously does not work. It is squishing the array into one single space delimited string. You have to account for the multiple id logic in a different way.
I am not sure which of these will perform better so make sure you test both of these with your own data to get a better idea of execution time.
Cycle each "filter"
$filters = Get-Content 'C:\test\list.txt'
# Get the files once
$files = Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Path "c:\test\source" -File
# Cycle Each ID filter manually
$filters | ForEach-Object{
$singleFilter
$files | Where-Object{$_.Name -like "*$singleFilter*"}
} | Move-Item -Destination "C:\test\Destination"
Make one larger filter
$filters = Get-Content 'C:\test\list.txt'
# Build a large regex alternative match pattern. Escape each ID in case there are regex metacharacters.
$regex = ($filters | ForEach-Object{[regex]::Escape($_)}) -join "|"
# Get the files once
Get-ChildItem -Recurse -path "c:\test\source" -File |
Where-Object{$_.Name -match $regex} |
Move-Item -Destination "C:\test\Destination"
try following this tutorial on how to use get-content function. Looks like when you have a multiple line file, you get an array back. you then have to iterate through your array and use the logic you used for only one item
So I'm not sure if this can be accomplished, all of the answers I've seen deal with knowing the exact file name...but here it goes:
I want to search through a directory that has +-2,000 songs in it, but I don't want to have to know the whole file name (because some of them can get long and complicated). Here is an example of what I want:
I know I can display all of the contents of the directory doing this:
Get-ChildItem C:\My\Path\To\Songs\Here
But what I want to do (since that directory contains about 2,000 songs) is search so that I only have to enter a few words from the title and have only those songs that contain those words pop up. For instance:
If the full name of the file is "Everybody Dies Young" and I search for the keyword "Everybody" I want the following to pop up:
Everybody
Everybody Loves Everybody
I Can't Get With Everybody
etc
etc
etc
Is this possible to search keywords in a directory and return all filenames with those keywords? I run Windows 7 if that helps anybody at all...
Use the -Filter parameter
Get-ChildItem -Path C:\My\Path\To\Songs\Here -Recurse -File -Filter *Everybody*
Reference: Get-ChildItem
-Filter
Specifies a filter in the provider's format or language. The value of
this parameter qualifies the Path parameter. The syntax of the filter,
including the use of wildcards, depends on the provider. Filters are
more efficient than other parameters, because the provider applies
them when retrieving the objects, rather than having Windows
PowerShell filter the objects after they are retrieved from the
provider.
Update:
To get just the file paths you can extend it like
Get-ChildItem -Recurse -File -Filter *Everybody* | % {$_.FullName}
Or
Get-ChildItem -Recurse -File -Filter *Everybody* | Foreach-Object {$_.FullName}
by piping the files to a for each loop and extracting the full path.
if you want a filter more elabored you can do it:
Get-ChildItem -Recurse -File | where {$_.Name -like "*word1*" -and $_.Name -notlike "*word2*"} | select FullName
I am trying to find all the files in the multiple folders but the only thing is that the files existed in some folders
E:\sample\cd.dll
E:\sample1\sample\cd.dll
If I am using the
Get-ChildItem -recurse
it returns Two FileSystemInfo of cd.dll.
The result should be only one FileName of cd.dll
thanks in advance.
Get-ChiltItem -recurse | Select-Object -Unique
Note that -Unique is case-sensitive so you may want to use the Sort-Object cmdlet:
Get-ChiltItem -recurse | Sort-Object -Unique
You can also eliminates duplicates with the Get-Unique cmdlet but it requires the objects to be sorted first for the cmdlet to work properly