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getting the path when recursively listing directories - 8/13/2008 6:27:05 PM

lcox

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I'm trying to recursively list files/folders that meet a search string criteria that returns their path and owner name, but the path comes back with Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem::\\servername\etc\etc and then ends up with 3 elipses (...). In other words, I don't get the "real" path (the short version). AND the owner ends up being their OID rather than something like domain\userid. Here's the one-liner I'm using:
gci -path $path -force -rec | select-string -list -casesensitive -pattern $SearchString | get-acl | ft path,owner -auto > c:\string_search.txt

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RE: getting the path when recursively listing directories - 8/14/2008 10:02:41 PM

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Since you're using "select-string" it looks like you're using the V2 tech preview, which I don't have installed at the moment. This works on PowerShell 1.0: >get-childitem $path -filter $SearchString | get-acl | format-table PsChildName,Owner PSChildName                             Owner
-----------                             -----
Dir1.txt                                BUILTIN\Administrators
Dir2.txt                                BUILTIN\Administrators
Dir3.txt                                BUILTIN\Administrators
reg1.txt                                BUILTIN\Administrators
reg2.txt                                BUILTIN\Administrators
reg3.txt                                BUILTIN\Administrators
Tmp.txt                                 BUILTIN\Administrators

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RE: getting the path when recursively listing directories - 8/15/2008 3:36:51 PM

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On one of my machines I have V2 and the other i do not.
Is it possible to get the directory path (minus the the long Microsoft....:: that comes before it) for each of the files/folders?

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RE: getting the path when recursively listing directories - 8/27/2008 9:37:16 AM

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Use the directoryname property to get the full folder name or FullName if you want the path and filename

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RE: getting the path when recursively listing directories - 8/27/2008 10:16:16 AM

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Thanks! How would the code look again?

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RE: getting the path when recursively listing directories - 8/27/2008 11:08:03 AM

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Now that I look closer the problem is that by the time you get to needing the filepath, you no longer have the original file object, you have an ACL object which doesn't have the property you need. There may be a more elegant solution but I simply parsed the PSPath value to get just the filepath.

gci -path $path -force -rec | select-string -list -casesensitive -pattern $SearchString | get-acl | ft @{label="Path";Expression={$_.pspath.substring($_.pspath.indexof("::")+2)}},owner -auto

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RE: getting the path when recursively listing directories - 8/27/2008 11:16:57 AM

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THAT'S THE TICKET!! I would have never figured this out. I simply incorporated that into my previously built powershell script and it came back just as I had hoped. NOW....I need to decipher what you did!

Is the key in the @ symbol?

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RE: getting the path when recursively listing directories - 8/27/2008 11:27:13 AM

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In format-table I'm creating a custom label using a hash table which is what the @ symbol is doing. The hash table (aka associative array) is like a dictionary object. The first part is the key and the second is the value. In this case a label and then an expression to return a value. The expression is any powerShell code inserted into the {}.

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