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PowerShell File Search Automation

The document discusses how to automate file searching using PowerShell by creating a function called Get-FolderDetails that takes parameters for the file path and extension to search for. The function uses PowerShell cmdlets like Get-ChildItem and Where-Object to retrieve files matching the extension from the given path and then loops through the results to output file details like name, size, and extension. The complete function code is provided to search for text files in a specified folder as an example.

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PowerShell File Search Automation

The document discusses how to automate file searching using PowerShell by creating a function called Get-FolderDetails that takes parameters for the file path and extension to search for. The function uses PowerShell cmdlets like Get-ChildItem and Where-Object to retrieve files matching the extension from the given path and then loops through the results to output file details like name, size, and extension. The complete function code is provided to search for text files in a specified folder as an example.

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PowerShell File Search Automation


By Ashish Shukla on Sep 23, 2023

One of the common requirements when working with files and folders is to get file details at a particular path.
For example, searching for all the text files in a specific folder. Often we do it manually or sort it in Windows
Explorer. This is one of the tasks which can be easily automated using Powershell.

Powershell has the concept of drives. When working with files and folders, we can use the commandlets for
drives. In our case, these cmdlets will let us retrieve and manipulate the files and folders. For example, we can list
all the files in a specific folder using the following command:

Get-ChildItem -Path "Path"

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The above command will list the contained items, such as folders or files. You can further filter with the Filer
parameter:

This will filter based on the file name. Since we need to display the file details contained within a particular folder,
we will define a function for this.

function Get-FolderDetails
{
# Your code logic here
}

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We will pass a parameter called $path and $extension to this function. This will be used to filter the folder based
on the files with matching extensions at the provided path.

Get-ChildItem -Path $path -Filter $extension

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Also, we want to ensure that the item we are searching in is a folder. To achieve this, we can use the where
command.

where {!$_.PSIsContainer}

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Now our function looks like this.

function Get-FolderDetails($path, $extension = "*.txt") {


$files = Get-ChildItem -Path $path -Filter $extension | Where-Object { -Not $_.PSIsContainer }

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Now we can easily iterate and display the various properties of the filtered files sing the following.

foreach ($object in $file)


{
Write-Host "`n Name : $($object.Name)"
Write-Host " Size : $($object.Length)"
Write-Host " Extension : $($object.extension)"
}

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Complete doe will function should is now.

function Get-FolderDetails($path, $extension = "*.txt") {


$file = Get-ChildItem -Path $path -Filter $extension | where {!$_.PSIsContainer}
$fileCount = ($file).Count
Write-Host "`nNumber of files: $fileCount"
Write-Host "`nFile Details:"
foreach ($object in $file) {
Write-Host "`nName: $($object.Name)"
Write-Host "Size: $($object.Length)"
Write-Host "Extension: $($object.Extension)"
}
}

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And we can call it.

Get-FolderDetails -extension "*.txt" -path G:\POCpowershell1

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This will display file details for the text files at the specified path.
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