Get full path of the files in PowerShell

Question

I need to get all the files including the files present in the subfolders that belong to a particular type.

I am doing something like this, using Get-ChildItem:

Answer 1

[alternative syntax]

For some people, directional pipe operators are not their taste, but they rather prefer chaining. See some interesting opinions on this topic shared in roslyn issue tracker: dotnet/roslyn#5445.

Based on the case and the context, one of this approach can be considered implicit (or indirect). For example, in this case using pipe against enumerable requires special token $_ (aka PowerShell's "THIS" token) might appear distasteful to some.

For such fellas, here is a more concise, straight-forward way of doing it with dot chaining:

(gci . -re -fi *.txt).FullName

(<rant> Note that PowerShell's command arguments parser accepts the partial parameter names. So in addition to -recursive; -recursiv, -recursi, -recurs, -recur, -recu, -rec and -re are accepted, but unfortunately not -r .. which is the only correct choice that makes sense with single - character (if we go by POSIXy UNIXy conventions)! </rant>)

Answer 2

Here's a shorter one:

(Get-ChildItem C:\MYDIRECTORY -Recurse).fullname > filename.txt

Answer 3

If relative paths are what you want you can just use the -Name flag.

Get-ChildItem "C:\windows\System32" -Recurse -Filter *.txt -Name

Answer 4

This worked for me, and produces a list of names:

$Thisfile=(get-childitem -path 10* -include '*.JPG' -recurse).fullname

I found it by using get-member -membertype properties, an incredibly useful command. most of the options it gives you are appended with a .<thing>, like fullname is here. You can stick the same command;

  | get-member -membertype properties 

at the end of any command to get more information on the things you can do with them and how to access those:

get-childitem -path 10* -include '*.JPG' -recurse | get-member -membertype properties

Answer 5

I am using below script to extact all folder path:

Get-ChildItem -path "C:\" -Recurse -Directory -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Select-Object FullName | Out-File "Folder_List.csv"

Full folder path is not coming. After 113 characters, is coming:

Example - C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\DeviceMetadataCache\dmrccache\en-US\ec4d5fdd-aa12-400f-83e2-7b0ea6023eb7\Windows...

Answer 6

I used this line command to search ".xlm" files in "C:\Temp" and the result print fullname path in file "result.txt":

(Get-ChildItem "C:\Temp" -Recurse | where {$_.extension -eq ".xml"} ).fullname > result.txt 

In my tests, this syntax works beautiful for me.