Category Archives: files

Path to files on start menu–Part 2

Posted on Wednesday 8 June 2011 by

Last time we had got the file names for most of the files but anything in special folders such as the desktop wasn’t displaying properly. We can fix that 001002003004005006007008009010011012013014015016017018019020021022023024025026027028029 $rd = New-Object -ComObject Shell.ApplicationGet-ChildItem -Path $rd.Namespace(0×8).Self.Path | where {-not $_.PSIsContainer} | foreach { if (Test-Path $_.Fullname){   $name = ($_.Name).Replace(“.lnk”,“”)   $ln = $name.length    $txt = (Select-String -InputObject (Get-Content -Path $_.Fullname ) -Pattern “:\” -SimpleMatch).ToString()   $i = $txt.LastIndexOf(“:\”)   $txt2 = $txt.SubString($i-1)      if ($txt2.Startswith(“C:\Users\”) ) {     $txt2 = $txt2.Remove(9, 22)     $txt2 = $txt2.Replace(“`\`\`\$env:COMPUTERNAME”,“”)     … Continue reading →

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Path to files on start menu

Posted on Tuesday 7 June 2011 by

I was asked today if it was possible the path to  recent files that are shown on the start menu. I thought it was easy until I started digging into it. The files on the start menu  are .lnk files … Continue reading →

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Watching the file system

Posted on Tuesday 25 January 2011 by

I picked up a question in the ITKE forums about a script to watch the file system   001002003004005006007008009010011012013014015016 function eventhandler {param ($e) Write-Host “File: $($e.SourceEventArgs.FullPath) has arrived”} $folder = “C:\test”$filter = “*”$fsw = New-Object -TypeName System.IO.FileSystemWatcher `-ArgumentList $folder, $filter$fsw.IncludeSubDirectories = $true $action = {eventhandler $($event)} Register-ObjectEvent -InputObject $fsw -EventName “Created” ` -SourceIdentifier “File System Creation” -Action $action   The event handler function accepts the event as a parameter and … Continue reading →

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File splitter update

Posted on Thursday 6 January 2011 by

I said last time that I wanted to make the file splitter function a bit more sophisticated. I would like to be able to wrap the distribution so it goes file 1,2,3,3,2,1,1,2..  etc 001002003004005006007008009010011012013014015016017018019020021022023024025026027028029030031032033034 function split-file {[CmdletBinding()]param (  [string]$file=“data.txt”,  [string[]]$outfiles,  [switch]$wrap)   if (!(Test-Path $file)){throw “File $file … Continue reading →

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File splitting

Posted on Wednesday 5 January 2011 by

I’ve recently had to do a lot of file splitting e.g. taking lists of names and creating lists of alternate names to give me two files. Every time I have one of these problems I seem to re-write the script.  … Continue reading →

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