{"id":629,"date":"2014-09-24T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/09\/24\/powertip-use-powershell-and-graphical-tool-to-view-files\/"},"modified":"2014-09-24T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-and-graphical-tool-to-view-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-and-graphical-tool-to-view-files\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell and Graphical Tool to View Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Use Windows PowerShell and a graphical tool to view large files.<\/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;How can I use Windows PowerShell to easily see what files in a folder are the largest so I can clean up my file system?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\">&nbsp;<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 return the contents of a folder, select the name and length of the files, then <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; pipe the results to the&nbsp;<b>Out-GridView<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet for easy viewing. This example uses a folder named C:\\fso:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">Get-ChildItem c:\\fso | Select name, length | Out-GridView<span style=\"font-size:12px\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:60px\"><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell and a graphical tool to view large files. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to easily see what files in a folder are the largest so I can clean up my file system? &nbsp;&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-ChildItem&nbsp;cmdlet to return the contents of a folder, select the name and length of the files, then [&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-629","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 and a graphical tool to view large files. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to easily see what files in a folder are the largest so I can clean up my file system? &nbsp;&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-ChildItem&nbsp;cmdlet to return the contents of a folder, select the name and length of the files, then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","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=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/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=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}