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Vikas Gupta
Vikas Gupta

Reputation: 89

Split directory path powershell

I want to split directory path using power shell. My full path is D:\data\path1\path2\abc.txt and i want to split it to path2\abc.txt. Can someone let me know how can I do that.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 14472

Answers (3)

Jag Man Gurung
Jag Man Gurung

Reputation: 1

Sorry for the super late post! I think you may have got the fix. But here is something you can try.

You can try using the substring() function as well.

$fullPath = "D:\data\path1\path2\abc.txt"
$rootPath = "D:\data\path1\"
$filePath = $fullPath.substring($rootPath.length, ($fullPath.length - $rootPath.length) )

Something like this may help you.

Upvotes: 0

ChiliYago
ChiliYago

Reputation: 12319

$last2parts = "D:\data\path1\path2\abc.txt".Split("\") | Select-Object -Last 2
$last2parts -join "\"

In reply to your comment on another solution try this. Just remove your constant d:\data\path1. Then perform the split

$last2parts = "D:\data\path1\path2\abc.txt".Replace("D:\data\path1","") 
$last2parts =$last2parts.Split("\") | Select-Object -Last 2
$last2parts -join "\"

Or try perhaps this if you want everything after D:\data\path1

$lastparts = "D:\data\path1\path2\abc.txt".Replace("D:\data\path1","") 
$lastparts =$lastparts.Split("\") 
$lastparts -join "\"

Upvotes: 2

LinuxDisciple
LinuxDisciple

Reputation: 2379

$PathAsString = "D:\data\path1\path2\abc.txt"

[System.IO.Path]::Combine($(Split-Path -leaf $(Split-Path $PathAsString)),$(Split-Path -leaf $PathAsString))

Uses the system's delimiter rather than specifying Windows' '\' character. Honestly if I knew this was only ever going to run on Windows systems I'd go with @ChiliYago's answer since you can't put the path delimiter character in a file or directory name like you can in Linux.

Upvotes: 1

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