fileinfosystem members

how do i use powershell to make use of the above class to get a file
EXTENSION ?

EXTENSION is a property.

The above class doesn't exist, I guess you meant 'System.IO.FileInfo'


You can get a file extension with get-childitem

get-childitem *.* | foreach {$_.extension}




Or by using the underlying NET type get-childitem is using:

([System.IO.FileInfo]"C:\Scripts\test.txt").extension

get-childitem *.* | foreach { ([System.IO.FileInfo]$_).extension }




Or with System.IO.Path GetExtension method

get-childitem *.* | foreach { [System.IO.Path]::GetExtension($_) }




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"Shay Levi" <no@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:8766a9441d3c48ca320cf9b07164@xxxxxx Perhaps the OP is referring to FileSystemInfo which is the base class shared
by both DirectoryInfo and FileInfo. That is where Extension and a number of
other members common to both directories and files are defined.

BTW one of my favorite things to do with extension is group by it:

get-childitem -r | group Extension | sort count -desc

Interesting approach. However that will generate errors on any
DirectoryInfo encountered. :-(

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Keith