Get full file path in PowerShell

Question

I need to get all files, including files located in subfolders belonging to a certain type.

I am doing something like this using Get-ChildItem :

Get-ChildItem "C:\windows\System32" -Recurse | where {$_.extension -eq ".txt"} 

However, it only returns file names to me, not the whole path.

Answer 1

Add | select FullName | select FullName at the end of your line above. If you need to do something with this later, you may have to translate it into a foreach loop, for example:

 get-childitem "C:\windows\System32" -recurse | where {$_.extension -eq ".txt"} | % { Write-Host $_.FullName } 

Answer 2

This should be much faster than using late filtering:

 Get-ChildItem C:\WINDOWS\System32 -Filter *.txt -Recurse | % { $_.FullName } 

Answer 3

You can also use Select-Object like this:

 Get-ChildItem "C:\WINDOWS\System32" *.txt -Recurse | Select-Object FullName 

Answer 4

Shorter here:

 (Get-ChildItem C:\MYDIRECTORY -Recurse).fullname > filename.txt 

Answer 5

If relative paths are what you want, you can simply use the -Name flag.

Get-ChildItem "C:\windows\System32" -Recurse -Filter *.txt -Name

Answer 6

 Get-ChildItem -Recurse *.txt | Format-Table FullName 

Here is what I used. I believe this is more understandable since it does not contain loop syntax.

Answer 7

Try the following:

 Get-ChildItem C:\windows\System32 -Include *.txt -Recurse | select -ExpandProperty FullName 

Answer 8

This worked for me and creates a list of names:

 $Thisfile=(get-childitem -path 10* -include '*.JPG' -recurse).fullname 

I found it using get-member -membertype properties , an incredibly useful command. most of the parameters it gives you are added using .<thing> , for example fullname . You can use the same command;

  | get-member -membertype properties 

at the end of any command, to get additional information about what you can do with them and how to access them:

 get-childitem -path 10* -include '*.JPG' -recurse | get-member -membertype properties 

Answer 9

 gci "C:\WINDOWS\System32" -r -include .txt | select fullname 

Answer 10

[alternative syntax]

For some people, directional pipe operators are not their taste, but rather prefer chains. See some interesting opinions on this topic shared by the roslyn tracker: dotnet / roslyn # 5445 .

Based on the case and context, one of these approaches can be considered implicit (or indirect). For example, in this case using pipe fromnumerable requires a special $_ token (aka PowerShell "THIS" token ), which may seem unpleasant for some.

For these guys, this is a more concise, direct way to do this using a chain of points:

 (gci . -re -fi *.txt).FullName 

(<rant> Note that the PowerShell argument parser accepts partial parameter names. Thus, in addition to -recursive ; -recursiv , -recursi , -recurs , -recur , -recu , -rec and -re , but unfortunately , not -r .., which is the only right choice that makes sense with a single character - (if we follow the POSIXy UNIXy conventions)! </rant>)

Answer 11

Really annoying thing in PS 5, where $ _ will not be the full path in foreach. These are string versions of FileInfo and DirectoryInfo objects. For some reason, a wildcard on the way corrects this, or use PS 6. You can also route the handset to get the element in the middle.

 Get-ChildItem -path C:\WINDOWS\System32\*.txt -Recurse | foreach { "$_" } Get-ChildItem -path C:\WINDOWS\System32 -Recurse | get-item | foreach { "$_" } 

EDIT: not a wildcard on the way, point on the way!

Answer 12

I use the script below to retrieve the entire folder path:

 Get-ChildItem -path "C:\" -Recurse -Directory -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Select-Object FullName | Out-File "Folder_List.csv" 

The full path to the folder does not go. After 113 characters, comes:

 Example - C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\DeviceMetadataCache\dmrccache\en-US\ec4d5fdd-aa12-400f-83e2-7b0ea6023eb7\Windows...