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Silentbob
Silentbob

Reputation: 3065

Getting the filename from a partial path in PowerShell

I am using PowerShell to open a PDF file where I don't know the full filename of the PDF file.

The following questions assisted me in getting this working and the code below is from that question.

Select a file without knowing the last five characters of its name in PowerShell

$dirPath  = Join-Path 'C:\temp' $currentYear 
$filePath = Join-Path $dirPath 'file201520_*.pdf'

$file = Get-Item $filePath

How then can I extract its actual full name?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 232

Answers (1)

EBGreen
EBGreen

Reputation: 37730

This will show you the properties of $File:

$file | Format-List *

You will see that $file.Name will tell you the file's name or $file.FullName will give you the name with the complete path.

Upvotes: 3

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