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arjgrundy · 14 May 2019 at 21:20

I am trying to search a list of folders containing XML files amongst other things. I am only concerned in searching a specific version number contained in these folders. Rather than using the Windows in built search which is throwing up false positives, can anyone think of a powershell command or search that can assist purely searching for said version number.

Thanks - any advice would be appreciated

Django x2 · 15 May 2019 at 11:25

get-childitem -recurse | where { $_.name -like "*1234" }

or similar

arjgrundy · 15 May 2019 at 19:04

Django x2 said:
get-childitem -recurse | where { $_.name -like "*1234" }

or similar

Thanks I’ll give this a try. Thanks for the quick reply

VeNT · 24 May 2019 at 12:17

Get-ChildItem -Path C:\meh -recurse -Include "*.xml"

it's almost always better to filter before the pipe so that you're not passing EVERYTHING to the next step.

VeNT · 24 May 2019 at 12:19

oh and use -File switch to stop it checking against folder names.

arjgrundy · 24 May 2019 at 12:35

VeNT said:
Get-ChildItem -Path C:\meh -recurse -Include "*.xml"

it's almost always better to filter before the pipe so that you're not passing EVERYTHING to the next step.

VeNT said:
oh and use -File switch to stop it checking against folder names.

Thanks very much for the reply. Will take a look at that.