CODEWITHSUNDEEP
powershell
Slowstuff
Slowstuff

Reputation: 109

Quickly scan large directory / drive with powershell

I am trying to scan a shared network drive, containing many thousands of files, for only Word files that haven't been modified in the past year. While what I wrote works, it is extremely slow. I have multiple drives I need to scan and it take hours. Is there anything I can do to speed it up?

gci \\RemoteServer\ -filter *.docx -recurse -force | %{write-progress -Status $_ -Activity "Scanning old Word files...";$_} | ? {$_.lastwritetime -ge '1/1/13' -AND $_.lastwritetime -le '12/30/13'} | measure-object

I did see this but am not sure how I would / could apply the date range to that search.

I also know that the write-progress slows it down, but since the first run took several hours I wanted to know it was alive.

Any help or guidance would be appreciated.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 492

Answers (1)

mjolinor
mjolinor

Reputation: 68331

Try this:

Switch -Wildcard ((cmd /c dir \\Server\Share\*.docx /S /A-D) -match 'Directory of|^\d\d/\d\d/2013')
  {
   '*Directory of*' {$directory = $_.replace(' Directory of ','')}
   Default          {'{2} {0}\{1}' -f $directory,($_ -split '\s+',4)[-1],$_.split(' ')[0] }
   }

Upvotes: 1

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