Category Archives: files

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(0x8).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 →

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 →

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 →