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FILE AND DIRECTORIES MANAGEMENT IN WINDOWS

Files and Directories


The organization and operation of directories and files in Windows is
equivalent to that of Linux. Therefore, the concepts of paths, .
directory and .. directory are equivalent.
When we talk about absolute paths, we have to notice the difference
between the root directory in Linux and in Windows.

Traverse directories.........................................1
How to manage an item in PS (file or directory)..............1
Text files content...........................................2
Compress and decompress items................................3

Traverse directories
When we want to refer to directories in PS, we will use the word
Location.
• Get-Location: to know the working directory. If we want to query
a different storage volume, we have to use the parameter -
PSDrive and the corresponding letter.
Get-Location -PSDrive C
• Set-Location path: to change the working directory
Set-Location C:\Users

How to manage an item in PS (file or directory)


PS generalizes the files and directory treatment with the word Item.
Remember that in Linux everything is a file.
• New-Item is the cmdlet to generate a new item and we will use
parameters in order to create a file or a directory.
New-Item -Path .\Desktop -Name directoryPS -ItemType directoryPS
New-Item .\file.txt -Value “Hello in the file”

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The first one creates a directory and the second one creates a file
with the content “Hello in the file”. In addition, the second one
does not use optional parameter names. The value parameter is also
optional.

• Rename-Item path\name newpath\newname: to rename an Item. We are


omitting the -Newname parameter. We can use the optional -Force
parameter also.
• Copy-Item directory -Destination newpath -Recurse -Force: to
copy an item (file or directory) to a new path. We can use the
optional parameters recurse in order to copy subfolders,
subsubfolders and so on; and the force in case we find items
with special attributes like hidden or “only read”.
• Move-Item file -Destination newpath -Force: to move an item
(file or directory) to a new location.
• Get-ChildItem [path]: to list the content of a directory. Is the
equivalent to ls Linux command.
This cmdlet can be executed with the -Include parameter that
specify a pattern for the item names we want to recover. And the
-Exclude parameter that specify the pattern of the item names we
want to exclude. Both can be used with wildcards.
• Remove-Item path: to delete an item.
It also accepts the parameters: -Include, -Exclude an -Recurse.

Text files content


We can change the file content with the word Content.
• Get-Content path: to recover the text of a file.
• Set-Content file -Value “New text”: to change the file content.
• Add-Content file -Value “New text added”: to append new text to
the end of the file.
• Clear-Content file: to delete the content of a file.

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Compress and decompress items
This cmdlets provide us of a way to join in a file several files and
directories. The size of the generated file will be smaller than the
sum of the items compressed.
Compress-Archive file1, dir2, file2 -DestinationPath file.zip -
CompresionLevel Optimal
Expand-Archive -Path file.zip -DestinationPath directory

References:
Based on Rafael López García notes.

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