Searching files in PowerShell is quite flexible in some ways. Why it's flexible? It provides a lot of option that you can type on cmdlet parameters. This code below will search for ".doc" and ".docx" files recursively in a given path. Get-ChildItem -Path "D:\My Docs Folder" -Filter *.doc* -Recurse If you have standard file naming convention, or you save files in a way that you could easily remember then PowerShell can also do it for you. Code below will search for any documents that its file name starts with Feb or feb. Get-ChildItem -Path "D:\My Docs Folder" -Filter Feb*.doc* -Recurse It's just document, the file name extension can be replace with *.xls* to search for excel worksheets or any file name extension such as ".png" or ".jpeg" or other video files or any type of file. Or if you searching for saved outlook messages, use *.msg to search for saved outlook emails. If...
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