Reputation: 25
I am using the below code:
Get-ChildItem -Path N:\USERS -Filter DANTOM.DTM -Recurse -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue -Force
I need it to either find the file "DANTOM.DTM" or the extension ".DTM". I need to exclude the folder N:\USERS\EDI because it is a 1.7TB folder that would never have this file in it. So in doing so would really speed up the process.
I would like the end result to either spit into a .txt file saying which folders inside of N:\USERS has the file or just have it display as a list in powershell.
Thank you,
Upvotes: 1
Views: 72
Reputation: 440689
Assuming that the files of interest do not reside directly in N:\USERS
(only in subdirs.), try the following (PSv3+ syntax); send to a file by appending > dirs.txt
, for instance.
Get-ChildItem N:\USERS -Directory | ? Name -ne 'EDI' |
Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Filter *.DTM |
ForEach-Object { $_.DirectoryName }
Note: While it is tempting to try a simpler approach with -Exclude EDI
, it unfortunately doesn't seem to be effective in excluding the entire subtree of the EDI
subfolder.
Upvotes: 1