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Avihai Marchiano
Avihai Marchiano

Reputation: 3927

How to find files in directory that has element matching xpath

To look for element by xpath i do:

Select-Xml -XPath "//node[a='1']" -Xml $xml

Is there a simple way (without loop) to look for all files under this directory that has element with this xpath?

Something similar to text search:

Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Include *.* | Select-String "text to search for"

version - Powershell3

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2305

Answers (1)

Keith Hill
Keith Hill

Reputation: 201952

You can pipe the files you want to do an XPath search directly into Select-Xml like so:

Get-ChildItem . -r -file | Select-Xml -XPath "//node[a='1']"

For more information on how the output of Get-ChildItem gets "connected" to the LiteralPath parameter of Select-Xml, see this blog post. You can get the whole Effective PowerShell free ebook from here.

Upvotes: 4

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