I have a bunch of html files that I need to rename with url encoding before I upload them to the server. I've tried:
Get-ChildItem -Path c:\temp\ -Recurse -Filter *.html | Rename-Item -NewName { $_.Name.replace("*.html",[Web.Httputility]::UrlEncode("*.html")) }
But that doesn't apply the encoding, can this be even done somehow?
Here's a basic way to do it, based on this answer:
(Get-ChildItem -Path c:\temp\ -Recurse -Filter *.html -File) |
foreach { ren $_.fullname ([uri]::EscapeDataString($_))}
Originally I had written it without the () around the Get-ChildItem, but found it was still reading directory information while the rename had already renamed the first item. Then the rename reencoded the first item a second time, thus making it a bit munged up.
Here's a cleaner version that handles the files first and then folders:
$files = Get-ChildItem -Path c:\temp\ -Recurse -Filter *.html -File
$folders = Get-ChildItem -Path c:\temp\ -Recurse -Filter *.html -Directory
$files | foreach { ren $_.fullname ([uri]::EscapeDataString($_))}
$folders | foreach { ren $_.fullname ([uri]::EscapeDataString($_))}
Based on your answers i did this to make it work
(Get-ChildItem -Path c:\temp\ -Recurse -Filter *.html) |
foreach { ren $_.fullName ([uri]::EscapeDataString($_.Name))} | Out-Null
Get-ChildItem -Path c:\temp\ -Recurse | ?{ $_.PSIsContainer } |
foreach { ren $_.fullName ([uri]::EscapeDataString($_.Name))}
First I had to do only files and then folders, because when top folder gets renamed, then the path to files inside it doesn't exist any more.
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I have a powershell script that simply uses the Get-ChildItem command to search through a directory for a folder matching a keyword. When found I need it to zip it and leave it right in that same directory.
Here's what I've tried by piping the command into both 7zip and the native compress:
set-alias zip "$env:ProgramFiles\7-Zip\7z.exe"
Get-ChildItem $path "keyword" -Recurse -Directory | zip a
AND
Get-ChildItem $path"keyword" -Recurse -Directory | compress-archive
Both times it always asks for a source and destination which is hard to define since I'm having it search through a drive with many sub-folders. I though using the pipe would imply the source as well.
Any ideas? Thanks!
EDIT:
I suppose I could set the Get-ChildItem to a variable and use that as the "source" and have the destination be a generic location for them all but I'd have to name them differently, no?
Give this a try:
$path = "INSERT SOURCE ROOT"
foreach ($directory in Get-ChildItem $path -Recurse -Directory -Filter "keyword"| Select-Object FullName | foreach { $_.FullName}) {
$destination = Split-Path -Path $directory -Parent
Compress-Archive -Path $directory -DestinationPath $destination
}
This is looking inside the path for anything matching the "keyword", going up 1 level, and then zipping the found file.
With temp and temp2 directories under C:\ this is working for me (note that the directories must have content):
Get-ChildItem "C:\" "temp*" -directory | compress-archive -DestinationPath "C:\tempzip.zip"
It zips all directories found to C:\tempzip.zip.
I believe what you actually want is:
$dirs = Get-ChildItem "C:\" "temp*" -directory
foreach ($dir in $dirs){
compress-archive $dir.fullname -DestinationPath "$($dir.fullname).zip"
}
Note that I omitted -recurse for my testing.
You can do this:
get-childitem -path "The Source Path" -recurse | where {$_.Name -match "Keyword"} | foreach {
$parent = Split-Path -Path $_ -Parent
Compress-Archive -Path $_ -DestinationPath $parent
}
How can I find Folders called BlueMountain when this folder could be nested anywhere in my Users home folder
\\Server\Users\<personsname>\
Ultimately I want to delete the folder but just to be on the safe side. The BlueMountain folder must have one of these subfolder
Certs
Config
Macros
Scripts
Spool
Traces
Transfer
This is what I have so far
Get-ChildItem -Path \\Server\Users -Recurse -Directory -Filter $_.FOLDERNAME | ForEach-Object {
If $_.FullName --eq "BlueMountain" {
}
}
You can use -recurse to look for the last thing in your path recursively. So this:
Get-ChildItem \\server\Users\BlueMountain -recurse
Will look in all subfolders of "\server\Users" for anything named "BlueMountain". Then you just need to make sure it has one of your folders.
$SubFolders = 'Certs','Config','Macros','Scripts','Spool','Traces','Transfer'
Get-ChildItem \\server\Users\BlueMountain -recurse | Where{Get-ChildItem "$($_.FullName)\*" -Include $SubFolders}
That should list only the BlueMountain folders found recursively in \server\Users which contain one of the specified subfolders. Then you can just pipe that to Remove-Item -force and call it a day. Or if you want to track things pipe it to tee-object and then to remove-item.
try this :
$SubFolders = 'Certs','Config','Macros','Scripts','Spool','Traces','Transfer'
$wordtosearch="BlueMountain"
$SearchPattern= ($SubFolders | %{ "$wordtosearch\\$_" }) -join "|"
get-childitem "\\Server\Users" -directory -Recurse |
where FullName -match $SearchPattern |
Split-Path -path {$_.FullName} -Parent |
remove-item -Recurse -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
I tried to copy files from one folder to another which have word HIGH at the end of name of files in their names but didn't get it. Any suggestion?
$dest = "C:\transform"
$source = "D:\result"
get-childitem $source - filter ".jpg" -recurse | Where-Object {$_.DirectoryName -match "HIGH" | ForEach-Object { Copy-Item $.fullname $dest}
$_.DirectoryName holds the folder name, $_.Name the file name :
$dest = "C:\transform"
$source = "D:\result"
Get-ChildItem $source -Filter ".jpg" -Recurse |
? { $_.BaseName -match "HIGH$" } |
% { Copy-Item $_.FullName $dest}
Or, as pointed by #Walter Mitty, a simpler :
Copy-Item -Path $source -Filter "*HIGH.jpg" -Destination $dest –Recurse
(in this case -Filter and -Include seem to behave the same)
The simplest way to copy files from one folder to another is the Copy-Item cmdlet.
Take a look at the -Path -Include -Destination and -Recurse parameters.
https://technet.microsoft.com/library/60a19812-67ab-4b58-a6f5-34640edafbb0(v=wps.630).aspx
I have subfolders, and subsubfolders. In the subsubfolders, I want to find all subfolders without a file named PKA.dump. Can this be done in powershell?
The subfolders go from Angle1, Angle2, etc up to Angle24
The subsubfolders go from 1eV, 2eV, to 150eV.
I can find when they are less than a certain size:
Get-Childitem -path . -filter "PKA.dump" -recurse | where {$_.Length -le 500}
But what if they dont exist?
If you have just 2 levels of directories, don't recurse. Do something like this instead:
Get-ChildItem -Path . -Directory | Get-ChildItem -Directory | ? {
-not (Test-Path -LiteralPath (Join-Path $_.FullName 'PKA.dump'))
}
For a deeper folder structure this should be ok:
Get-ChildItem -Path C:\yourpath\ -recurse | where {$_.psiscontainer} | % {
if((Get-ChildItem -Path $_.FullName -File).name -notcontains "pka.dump"){ $_.FullName }
}
I have a Visual Studio solution with several projects. I clean up the bin and obj folders as part of clean up using the following script.
Get-ChildItem -path source -filter obj -recurse | Remove-Item -recurse
Get-ChildItem -path source -filter bin -recurse | Remove-Item -recurse
This works perfectly. However, I have a file-based data folder that has about 600,000 sub folders in it and is located in a folder called FILE_DATA.
The above script takes ages because it goes through all these 600,000 folders.
I need to avoid FILE_DATA folder when I recursively traverse and remove bin and obj folders.
Here is a more efficient approach that does what you need--skip subtrees that you want to exclude:
function GetFiles($path = $pwd, [string[]]$exclude)
{
foreach ($item in Get-ChildItem $path)
{
if ($exclude | Where {$item -like $_}) { continue }
$item
if (Test-Path $item.FullName -PathType Container)
{
GetFiles $item.FullName $exclude
}
}
}
This code is adapted from Keith Hill's answer to this post; my contribution is one bug fix and minor refactoring; you will find a complete explanation in my answer to that same SO question.
This invocation should do what you need:
GetFiles -path source -exclude FILE_DATA
For even more leisurely reading, check out my article on Simple-Talk.com that discusses this and more: Practical PowerShell: Pruning File Trees and Extending Cmdlets.
If the FILE_DATA folder is a subfolder of $source (not deeper), try:
$source = "C:\Users\Frode\Desktop\test"
Get-Item -Path $source\* -Exclude "FILE_DATA" | ? {$_.PSIsContainer} | % {
Get-ChildItem -Path $_.FullName -Filter "obj" -Recurse | Remove-Item -Recurse
Get-ChildItem -Path $_.FullName -Filter "bin" -Recurse | Remove-Item -Recurse
}