Messing up with folders in Powershell?
Got a thousand and hundreds of folders on your drive and you
want to get the folder names or just having some free time and you want to
organize it?
Powershell will save time to organize those folders and will
save time on searching and finding information.
Organizing folders or even organizing your own activities in
life makes it easier and systematic.
How to mess up with folders in Powershell? And get the data
that you wanted.
Powershell provides a relatively quick and easy way to list
folders.
Open Powershell ISE or the Powershell command prompt.
Or you are a command line junkie, dir command will be the
first command that will cross your mind if you need to list folders in Windows
and it also even works in Linux.
Since "dir" command does a beautiful job of
listing folders and files, the outout can easily be pipe to Powershell for
further processing.
Try this command in Powershell ISE or Powershell command
prompt:
dir d:\ | where-object {$_.PsIsContainer -eq $true} |
select-object name
Sample output:
PS C:\Users\user01> dir d:\ | where-object
{$_.PsIsContainer -eq $true} | select-object name
Name
----
64 bit win 2012
70-417 html notes win2012
It will list the folder names on the drive specified on the
command.
To get the last write time for each folder use this command:
dir d:\ | where-object {$_.PsIsContainer -eq $true} |
select-object name,lastwritetime
Sample Output:
Name
LastWriteTime
----
-------------
64 bit win 2012
11/14/2012 9:48:40 PM
70-417 html notes win2012
5/30/2015 4:44:57 PM
To include the path for each folder type this command:
dir d:\ | where-object {$_.PsIsContainer -eq $true} |
select-object fullname
Sample Output:
Name
----
D:\64 bit win 2012
D:\70-417 html notes win2012
If the output of the commands is just overwhelming, too much
information that you can't even process is good as nothing.
If there are hundreds or thousands of data, filter the
output by this command:
dir d:\ | where-object {$_.PsIsContainer -eq $true} | Select-object name | where {$_.Name -like
"70*"}
The "-like" operator will filter any folder names
that starts with the word "70" on the folder name.
If you are looking for a folder name but you just remember a
part of the folder name use this command:
dir d:\ | where-object {$_.PsIsContainer -eq $true} | Select-object name | where {$_.Name -match
"70*"}
The command will search for any folders that has
"7" or "70" on each folder name.
Sample output of the command that uses "-match
"70*":
Name
----
70-417 html notes win2012
70647
Intel Wireless LAN Driver Win7x86-64bit
New folder_70_
win
wireless lan driver win7x86-64bit
--------------------------------------------------
"dir" and "ls" command in Powershell is an alias for Get-ChildItem or gci for short.
That's all, till next time. Try it messed up with the folder
names. The command does not remove, delete or rename the folders so you are
safe to play with it.
Cheers..Happy coding!!!
=======================================
How to Recite the Holy Rosary?
http://quickbytesstuff.blogspot.sg/2014/09/how-to-recite-rosary.html
Free Android App with No Ads:
Amidst the daily toils and hard work.
It's always a good thing to get down to your knees and pray.
Check out this free Android app on Google Play.
Search "soulrefresh" on Google Play store.
Then click and install: Heaven's Dew Fall
http://quickbytesstuff.blogspot.sg/2014/09/how-to-recite-rosary.html
Free Android App with No Ads:
Amidst the daily toils and hard work.
It's always a good thing to get down to your knees and pray.
Check out this free Android app on Google Play.
Search "soulrefresh" on Google Play store.
Then click and install: Heaven's Dew Fall
A true prayer delights the heart and gladdens the soul.
Be meek and humble of heart in prayer.
Click on links below to find out more:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=soulrefresh.beautiful.prayer
Catholic Rosary Guide for Android:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.myrosaryapp
http://quickbytesstuff.blogspot.sg/2014/09/how-to-recite-rosary.html
Divine Mercy Chaplet Guide (A Powerful prayer):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dmercyapp
Educational Android App for Kids:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xmultiplication
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.letsmultiply
Comments
Post a Comment