How to retrieve recursively any files with a specific extensions in PowerShell?
If sorting by Length is not a necessity, you can use the -Name
parameter to have Get-ChildItem
return just the name, then use [System.IO.Path]::GetFileNameWithoutExtension()
to remove the path and extension:
Get-ChildItem -Path .\ -Filter *.js -Recurse -File -Name| ForEach-Object {
[System.IO.Path]::GetFileNameWithoutExtension($_)
}
If sorting by length is desired, drop the -Name
parameter and output the BaseName
property of each FileInfo
object. You can pipe the output (in both examples) to clip
, to copy it into the clipboard:
Get-ChildItem -Path .\ -Filter *.js -Recurse -File| Sort-Object Length -Descending | ForEach-Object {
$_.BaseName
} | clip
If you want the full path, but without the extension, substitute $_.BaseName
with:
$_.FullName.Remove($_.FullName.Length - $_.Extension.Length)
The simple option is to use the .Name
property of the FileInfo
item in the pipeline and then remove the extension:
Get-ChildItem -Path "C:\code\" -Filter *.js -r | % { $_.Name.Replace( ".js","") }
There are two methods for filtering files: globbing using an Wildcard, or using a Regular Expression (Regex).
Warning: The globbing method has the drawback that it also matches files which should not be matched, like *.jsx
.
# globbing with Wildcard filter
# the error action prevents the output of errors
# (ie. directory requires admin rights and is inaccessible)
Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Filter '*.js' -ErrorAction 'SilentlyContinue'
# filter by Regex
Where-Object { $_.Name -Match '.*\.js$' }
You then can sort by name or filesize as needed:
# sort the output
Sort-Object -PropertyName 'Length'
Format it a simple list of path and filename:
# format output
Format-List -Property ('Path','Name')
To remove the file extension, you can use an select to map the result:
Select-Item { $_.Name.Replace( ".js", "")
Putting it all together, there is also a very short version, which you should not use in scripts, because it's hardly readable:
ls -r | ? { $_.Name -matches '.*\.js' } | sort Length | % { $_.Name.Replace( ".js", "") | fl
If you like brevity, you can remove the ForEach-Object and quotes. -Path
defaults to the current directory so you can omit it
(Get-ChildItem -Filter *.js -Recurse).BaseName | Sort length -Descending