{"id":618,"date":"2014-09-27T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-27T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/09\/27\/powertip-find-all-formatxml-files-referencing-wmi-class\/"},"modified":"2014-09-27T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-27T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-find-all-formatxml-files-referencing-wmi-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-find-all-formatxml-files-referencing-wmi-class\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Find all Format*xml Files Referencing WMI Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Find all Format*xml files that contain references to specific WMI class.<\/span><\/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;I am trying to find why a particular WMI class returns a subset of properties. I suspect output is controlled by an <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;entry in one of the Format*xml files, so how can I use Windows PowerShell to easily find which file contains <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;the formatting information?<\/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 list the files in&nbsp;<b>$pshome<\/b>. Then use&nbsp;<b>Select-String<\/b>&nbsp;to search for the <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;WMI class name. To clean up the output, select only the unique paths that return. <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Here is an example (this is a one-line command that has wrapped):<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">Select-String -Pattern win32_computersystem -Path ((ls $PSHOME).fullname) <br \/>-SimpleMatch -ea 0 | select-object path -Unique<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:60px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Find all Format*xml files that contain references to specific WMI class. &nbsp;I am trying to find why a particular WMI class returns a subset of properties. I suspect output is controlled by an &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;entry in one of the Format*xml files, so how can I use Windows PowerShell to easily [&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-618","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: Find all Format*xml files that contain references to specific WMI class. &nbsp;I am trying to find why a particular WMI class returns a subset of properties. I suspect output is controlled by an &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;entry in one of the Format*xml files, so how can I use Windows PowerShell to easily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","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=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/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=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}