Vista Tutorial - elegant way to get path and file name

Hello everyone,


Suppose I have a string representing a file name (absolute name), like
"c:\myproject\Csharpproject\memo.txt", I want to retrieve the path like
c:\myproject\Cshartproject and relative file name memo.txt separately.


thanks in advance,
George

On Aug 26, 7:59*am, George <Geo...@xxxxxx> wrote:George,

The Get-ChildItem Cmdlet returns a FileInfo object, which you can use
to get these properties:

PSH$ $file = Get-ChildItem "c:\myproject\Csharpproject\memo.txt"

PSH$ $file.DirectoryName
c:\myproject\Csharpproject

PSH$ $file.Name
memo.txt


Jeff

# PowerShell's Split-Path can do this for you:
# parent path:
split-path c:\myproject\Csharpproject\memo.txt -Parent
# same as above, w/o the -Parent switch:
split-path c:\myproject\Csharpproject\memo.txt
# file name:
split-path c:\myproject\Csharpproject\memo.txt -Leaf

# ...and more:
split-path c:\myproject\Csharpproject\memo.txt -Qualifier
split-path c:\myproject\Csharpproject\memo.txt -NoQualifier
split-path c:\myproject\Csharpproject\memo.txt -IsAbsolute

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Kiron

Thanks Jeff,


Cool!


regards,
George

Cool, Kiron!


regards,
George

I cannot even find out how to insert the path and filename anymore with Vista. Help.

What do you mean "insert the path and filename anymore", rsgreer?


regards,
George

I want to place a path and filename on all of my documents like I did in the older version, however, I cannot seem to find out how to do this?? It is simple I am sure, I just don't see it.

Thanks rsgreer,


I think it is very clear in this discussion how to retrieve path and
relative name parts of a absolute path file name. What is your specific
confusion? :-)


regards,
George

You keep saying that but I haven't once seen someone write go to file, scroll down, add path and file name. If you are not able to write the directions we can stop this