Vista - get-child item question from a newbie

08-29-2007

On Aug 29, 11:00 am, "Keith Hill [MVP]"
<r_keith_h...@xxxxxx_no_spam_I> wrote:

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> <powershel...@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> news:1188399013.650799.260310@xxxxxx
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> > First of all, I want to thank everyone that has offered suggestions.
> > I'm still a bit stumped on this.
> > as far as I can tell the solutions don't address the fact that I just
> > want to step one level deep from the current dir and run a specific
> > command (in this case it's actually a script that must be run from
> > current dir, I can't just run it from a different dir with the correct
> > path.) and then I need to go back up one dir and then back down into
> > the next dir and run the same command.
> > I don't think I need -recurse because I don't want to go deeper than
> > the one level.

>
> Missed that part - sorry. Then this should work for you:
>
> get-item * | where {$_.PSIsContainer} | set-location -passthru | foreach {
> c:\myscript.ps1}
>
> get-item * will get the items (files/folders) in the current directory and
> pass them to the where filter which filters out the files.
>
> --
> Keith

Thanks Keith, and everyone else that commented. This is an example of
what I ended up getting to work

get-ChildItem * | where {$_.PSIsContainer} | set-Location -passthru |
foreach {sub\junk}

so for each subdir I am running another command which is always
located in a dir called sub

full structure
c:\test\sample\sub\<junk.exe>
c:\test\sample1\sub\<junk.exe>
c:\test\sample2\sub\<junk.exe>
c:\test\sample3\sub\<junk.exe>
I run the command above from \test and it runs each instance of
junk.exe from within \sample* dir

THANKS!

08-29-2007	#11 (permalink)
powersheller n/a posts	Re: get-child item question from a newbie On Aug 29, 11:00 am, "Keith Hill [MVP]" <r_keith_h...@xxxxxx_no_spam_I> wrote: Quote: > <powershel...@xxxxxx> wrote in message > > news:1188399013.650799.260310@xxxxxx > Quote: > > First of all, I want to thank everyone that has offered suggestions. > > I'm still a bit stumped on this. > > as far as I can tell the solutions don't address the fact that I just > > want to step one level deep from the current dir and run a specific > > command (in this case it's actually a script that must be run from > > current dir, I can't just run it from a different dir with the correct > > path.) and then I need to go back up one dir and then back down into > > the next dir and run the same command. > > I don't think I need -recurse because I don't want to go deeper than > > the one level. > > Missed that part - sorry. Then this should work for you: > > get-item * \| where {$_.PSIsContainer} \| set-location -passthru \| foreach { > c:\myscript.ps1} > > get-item * will get the items (files/folders) in the current directory and > pass them to the where filter which filters out the files. > > -- > Keith Thanks Keith, and everyone else that commented. This is an example of what I ended up getting to work get-ChildItem * \| where {$_.PSIsContainer} \| set-Location -passthru \| foreach {sub\junk} so for each subdir I am running another command which is always located in a dir called sub full structure c:\test\sample\sub\<junk.exe> c:\test\sample1\sub\<junk.exe> c:\test\sample2\sub\<junk.exe> c:\test\sample3\sub\<junk.exe> I run the command above from \test and it runs each instance of junk.exe from within \sample* dir THANKS!
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