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File Operations
Path References
$env:userprofile\Desktop $Home\Desktop ~\Desktop
Common Commands By Example
List Items
$exclude = @("*.log", "*.tmp", "log*.txt") $files = ls -Recurse -Exclude $exclude Compress-Archive -Path $files -DestinationPath $home\desktop\webagent.zip
$base_path = "$home\downloads" $exclude_dir_files = @("$base_path\tmp\*", "$base_path\log\*", "*.tmp", "*.log" ) ls -Recurse -Exclude $exclude_dir
Search through files for string/grep
Example
Get-ChildItem -Recurse *.config | Select-String "foo" -List | Select Path
Create File
New-Item -force $env:temp\foo\foo.txt
Zip Files
Example
Compress-Archive -Path .\* -DestinationPath $env:userprofile\desktop\webapp1.zip
Example
$files = ls -Path .\* -Exclude @("*.tmp", "*.log") Compress-Archive -Path $files -DestinationPath $env:userprofile\desktop\webapp1.zip
$files = ls -Recurse | Where-Object {$_.FullName -notlike "*log*"} Compress-Archive -Path $file -DestinationPath $env:userprofile\desktop\webapp1.zip
List contents of archive
$archive = [System.IO.Compression.ZipFile]::OpenRead("$env:userprofile\downloads\archive.zip") $archive.Entries | Select-Object -Property FullName