Going through folders

spiceuser-etvsa · 2021-08-23T04:17:10.000Z

Been beating my head on this one for awhile

I am basically trying to list each folder and sub folder ( which works fine) than for each folder i want to check if a file exist in that folder(this part doesnt work) and if it does check if another file exist…

The below is just listing each folder than checking if a txt file exists in that folder

using Get-ChildItem -Path $_ -Include .bmp,.txt -File -Recurse just errors out for some reason…

would love any help on solving the problem…or if someone wants to take it one step further and finish the last step after this which is checking if a tif file exist in the folder and if it does checking if an xml file exists too i would be grateful too

$folders=Get-ChildItem -Path C:\Users\test\Downloads\scripttest\ -Recurse -Directory -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Select-Object FullName

$folders|foreach{

Write-Output $_

using Test-Path -Path $_*.txt -PathType Leaf

}

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Neally · 2021-08-23T04:21:51.000Z

spiceuser-etvsa:

using Get-ChildItem -Path $_ -Include .bmp,.txt -File -Recurse just errors out for some reason…

It would be helpful if you post the error?

spiceuser-etvsa · 2021-08-23T04:30:43.000Z

Hello,

Sorry! Ill add the code part there.

The error is below, but if I can get this working with test path that is ideal

Get-ChildItem : A parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name ‘File’.
At line:5 char:45

Get-ChildItem -Path $_ -Include .bmp,.txt -File -Recurse
CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: ( [Get-ChildItem], ParameterBindingException
FullyQualifiedErrorId : NamedParameterNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetChildItemCommand

Neally · 2021-08-23T04:37:10.000Z

spiceuser-etvsa:

What PowerShell version are you using?

‘-file’ was added to ‘Get-Childitem’ in Powershell v3.

Additionally to use this:

Get-ChildItem -Path $_ -Include *.bmp,*.txt -File -Recurse

$_ is the current value in the pipe, so this needs to be run from within a ‘foreach-object’ loop.

Have you tried to just feed it a path?

Get-ChildItem "c:\folder" -Include *.bmp,*.txt -File -Recurse

spiceuser-etvsa · 2021-08-23T04:40:42.000Z

Hello Neatly,

Im not 100% sure of the version. I am using the one from windows 10.

I am using a for each loop. Any reason test path is returning false even thought their are txt files in the location?

$folders=Get-ChildItem -Path C:\Users\test\Downloads\scripttest\ -Recurse -Directory -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Select-Object FullName

$folders|foreach{

Write-Output $_

using Test-Path -Path $_*.txt -PathType Leaf

}

Neally · 2021-08-23T04:47:01.000Z

Yes, because the fullname includes ‘.txt’ , so if you add ‘.txt’ you’ll have double ‘.txt.txt’

Also, what is that using supposed to do in front of it??

$folders = 
(Get-ChildItem "C:\Users\test\Downloads\scripttest" -Recurse -Directory -Force).fullname

$folders |
foreach-object {
    Write-Output $_
    if ($_ -like "*.txt") {
        Test-Path $_ -PathType Leaf
    }
}

Neally · 2021-08-23T04:47:49.000Z

If you are using Windows 10, you should have at least 5.1

$PSversionTable

spiceuser-etvsa · 2021-08-23T05:02:48.000Z

PSVersion 5.1.19041.1151

why would it have double .txt though? the $_ is just a file path and the test path should be checking for a txt file in the path given by $_

Neally · 2021-08-23T05:08:46.000Z

spiceuser-etvsa:

Test-Path -Path $_*.txt

why would it have double .txt though? the $_ is just a file path and the test path should be checking for a txt file in the path given by $_

let’s assume the current fullname value [$_] is :

"D:\test2\New folder\someFile.txt"

if you are looking for “$_*.txt”

you are looking for something like

D:\test2\New folder\someFile.txt*.txt

spiceuser-etvsa · 2021-08-23T05:13:11.000Z

But the initial code that is piping in is only the folder path not the file name.

the output of this is

Write-Output $_

C:\Users\test\Downloads\scripttest\folder1

when pipped in from

Get-ChildItem -Path C:\Users\test\Downloads\scripttest\ -Recurse -Directory -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Select-Object FullName

so should the code below return positive if the folder has a text file? if the full name path is just a folder?

Test-Path -Path $_* -PathType Leaf

Neally · 2021-08-23T05:24:54.000Z

if you just select the folder (-directory) , you’d have to query each folder again for it’s content, as using ‘-directory’ only returns the top level folder.

I think what you want is this:

$Folders = Get-childitem "D:\test2" -Recurse -Directory

foreach($Folder in $Folders){
    write-verbose "Folder: $($folder.fullname)" -verbose
    if(Test-Path "$($Folder.fullname)\*.txt"){
        write-output "Folder $($folder.name) contains TXT files."
    }
}

spiceuser-etvsa · 2021-08-23T05:53:40.000Z

Thank you!