{"id":2039,"date":"2014-02-07T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/02\/07\/powertip-use-powershell-to-count-types-of-photos\/"},"modified":"2014-02-07T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-count-types-of-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-count-types-of-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Count Types of Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summary<\/b>: Use Windows PowerShell to count the different types of photo files on your computer.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to figure out how many of each type of photo file I have on my computer?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<b>Get-ChildItem<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet to retrieve specific types of photograph files, and then pipe the results to the&nbsp;<br \/><b>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Group-Object<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet, group on the&nbsp;<b>Extension<\/b>&nbsp;property, and use the&nbsp;<b>&ndash;NoElement<\/b>&nbsp;switch to remove <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;individual file information:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:90px\">Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Include *.jpg, *.cr2, *.png, *.bmp -Path e:\\ | Group-Object extension -NoElement<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to count the different types of photo files on your computer. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to figure out how many of each type of photo file I have on my computer? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-ChildItem&nbsp;cmdlet to retrieve specific types of photograph files, and then pipe the results to the&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-2039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to count the different types of photo files on your computer. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to figure out how many of each type of photo file I have on my computer? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-ChildItem&nbsp;cmdlet to retrieve specific types of photograph files, and then pipe the results to the&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}