On Mar 9, 6:43*pm, "Marco Shaw [MVP]" <marco.shaw@_NO_SPAM_gmail.com>
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> > I need to read only the data lines from each file into a single file
> > (data.out) and delete each .in file as it has been processed.
> > I have gotten pretty close filtering by $_.Length *-gt 6, but getting
> > it into a single output file and then deleting the source file eludes
> > me.
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> > Is this possible and if so how?
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> > Your help is greatly appreciated.
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> Give this a try (change your paths accordingly):
>
> get-childitem c:\demo2\tmp -recurse *.in|foreach-object{
> * *select-string $_ -pattern "^dataline"|foreach-object{
> * * *add-content "c:\demo2\tmp\data.out" $_.tostring().split(":")[3]
> * *}
> * *remove-item $_.fullname -whatif
>
> }
>
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Thanks for your response - intriguing!
I couldn't get it to actually put the detail line into the file
data.out until I removed '.split(":")[3]' - what does that do?
Thanks again for your help,
Joe