Newbie ? on Filtering Results of Get-ChildItem 1

[thermidor]

Hi All:

I am new to PS. The line below almost does what I need... I want to recusively look in $Path and return every file that has the string "(1)" - open paren, digit one, close paren, in that sequence - in its name. With the command below, my results include files that have all three characters but not in sequence.

$wind =get-Childitem $Path -recurse | where{$_.name -match "(1)"}

Please let me know any suggestions.

TIA,
Sven

 

[58sniper]

I've never been terribly good with regular expressions, but I think that's what's happening. It's getting interpreted as a regular expression, and needs to be escaped. Not sure how to do that, as inserting escape characters doesn't seem to fix it.

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[58sniper]

Okay, looks like this works:

Get-ChildItem -Recurse | ? {$_.name -match "\(1\)"}

courtesy of comparing a string that contains a parenthesis

Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.

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[58sniper]

whoops, actuall, for your example, it would be

$wind = Get-ChildItem $path -Recurse | ? {$_.name -match "\(1\)"}

Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.

http://www.ucblogs.net/blogs/exchange/

 

[tsuji]

>$wind =get-Childitem $Path -recurse | where{$_.name -match "(1)"}
[tt]$wind =get-Childitem $Path -recurse | where{$_.name -match "[red]\[/red](1[red]\[/red])"}[/tt]

 

[tsuji]

sorry, not refresh before posting.