I am trying to figure out a command in the CLI which I know in Linux Ubuntu but I need to apply it in Microsoft.
Moreover, I am trying to find all files within a folder with a specific name. Particularly, I try to find all files which contain the term 'test' in their name.
Here is the command which I know in Linux:
find \home\user\data -name '*test*'
Does anyone know the equivalent in the windows command line?
You will looking for Get-ChildItem
Get-ChildItem C:\Test -Filter "*test*"
In PowerShell you can use Get-ChildItem to find files and folders.
If you want to use regular expressions, you can combine Get-ChildItem with the Select-String or Where-Object cmdlets.
Get-ChildItem -Path C:\ -Recurse | Select-String -pattern "Regex"
Get-ChildItem -Path C:\ -Recurse | Where-Object -FilterScript {$_.name -match "regex"}
You're looking for the "dir" command. To accomplish the same thing as your original search, you would use
dir \home\user\data "*test*"
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I have a long list of folders. Most of the folders follow the "name_#name" format. I have some that don't follow that structure. I want to move all the folders (and the sub-folders/files within) that DON'T have "_" in the folder name.
For example:
test_#12352
moose_#4532
horse_#84462
cow24
fish3
Moved:
cow24
fish3
I think Move files when they contain a specific word? could be modified to make it work...just not sure how. I'm used to just using GUI, this is my first time using PowerShell
When I tried using that code in that link it didn't work with my situation
What you want to do is just filter the list before you move any files
So you can use the following to pick up all the files you want
$Files = Get-childItem -Path $Path -File
You can then filter it down. My favourite way is to pipe the variable into Where-Object and play around with the individual properties and match types. Since you don't want to include the _ we can use a -notmatch "_" to exclude those values
$Files = Get-ChildItem -Path $Path -File | Where-object{$_.Name -notmatch "_"}
And finally, you can move the files
$Files | move-item -path $_.FullName -Destination $Destination
Or as a one liner
Get-ChildItem -Path $Path -File | Where-object{$_.Name -notmatch "_"} | move-item -path $_.FullName -Destination $Destination
*Please note I haven't really tested this code. So test it out yourself before you run it
I need to move set of specific files having different extension to another folder.
I have following filtered files in the directory.
file1.txt
file2.xml
file3.dll
I have kept the above files in the variable $files and I need to move each of files to another folder.
Below is the code I tried.
foreach ($fileType in $files) {
Get-ChildItem -Path C:\Files -Filter "$fileType*." -Recurse |
Move-Item -Destination C:\Dest
}
I am getting following error
Get-ChildItem : Illegal characters in path.
At line:1 char:38
+ ... lude_files){Get-ChildItem -Path C:\Files
Appreciate if anyone can help on this?
An easy way to do this
ls C:\files | Foreach {
Move-Item -Path C:\files\$filetype -Destination C:\dest
}
If all the files you are after share a common 'starts-with' name like file as in your example, the below should do what you want. It uses the -Include parameter where you can add an array of (in this case) extensions to look for.
Get-ChildItem -Path 'C:\Files' -Filter 'file*' -Include '*.txt','*.xml','*.dll' -Recurse |
Move-Item -Destination 'C:\Dest'
Note: the -Include parameter only works when also used together with the -Recurse switch, OR by appending \* after the path (like in C:\Files\*)
I am trying to convert code from bash to PowerShell like this:
In bash:
find ./searchfolder -type f -name "something" | xargs cp -t ./destinationfolder
I mean "find" command finds
./searchfolder/something
./searchfolder/0.15/something
./searchfolder/0.25/something
and "copy" command copies the files in the new directory (with preserving folder structure)
./destinationfolder/something
./destinationfolder/0.15/something
./destinationfolder/0.25/something
How can i do that? Thanks in advance.
How about using the Filter parameter on the Copy-Item command? This might get you close.
cp ".\searchfolder" -Recurse -Filter "something" -Destination ".\destinationfolder"
cp is an Alias of Copy-Item BTW.
This is assuming you are looking for text files in C:\temp and moving them to C:
Get-Childitem –Path C:\Temp -Recurse -Include *.txt* | ForEach-Object { mv $_.fullName c:\ }
Regards!
I am assuming this will be the folder structure. Only one Subdirectory inside Sourcefolder.
SourceFolder
--f1
-test.txt
--f2
-test.txt
--f3
-other.txt
and copy folders which has file named test
Destination
--f1
-test.txt
--f2
-test.txt
Script
cd D:\Vincent\PSTesting
$Path = 'Searchfolder'
Get-ChildItem $Path -Recurse -Filter *Test* -File | foreach {
$SourceFolder = $_.Directory -replace "^.*$Path"
Copy-Item -Path $Path\$SourceFolder -Destination "D:\Vincent\PSTesting\Destinationfolder\" -Verbose -Recurse
}
I'm learning Git Internals https://git-scm.com/book/en/v1/Git-Internals-Git-Objects
When I try to execute this command on Windows (using cmder a better console http://cmder.net/)
find .git/objects
I get an error
What should I do instead ?
find.exe in Windows is not the equivalent of find in linux.
The equivalent of find [startpath] in PowerShell would be:
Get-ChildItem [startpath] -Name
and in cmd.exe, it would be:
dir /B [startpath]
For an equivalent of:
find foo -type f
... I use:
Get-Children foo -Name -Recurse -File | % { $_ -replace "\\", "/" }
Use the FullName attribute, otherwise it will not show the full name if the path is long:
(Get-ChildItem -Path 'C:\dist\work' -Force -Recurse -ErrorAction 'SilentlyContinue' -Filter "objects").FullName
C:\dist\work\bam-client\.git\objects
C:\dist\work\bam-extras\.git\objects
:
How can I count all files in a specific folder (and all subfolders) with the Powershell command Get-ChildItem?
With (Get-ChildItem <Folder> -recurse).Count also the folders are counted and this is not that what I want. Are there other possibilities for counting files in very big folders quickly?
Does anybody know a short and good tutorial regarding the Windows Powerhell?
I would pipe the result to the Measure-Object cmdlet. Using (...).Count can yield nothing in case there are no objects that match your criteria.
$files = Get-ChildItem <Folder> -Recurse | Where-Object {!$_.PSIsContainer} | Measure-Object
$files.Count
In PowerShell v3 we can do the following to get files only:
Get-ChildItem <Folder> -File -Recurse
Filter for files before counting:
(Get-ChildItem <Folder> -recurse | where-object {-not ($_.PSIsContainer)}).Count