{"id":6841,"date":"2015-04-05T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-05T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/04\/05\/powertip-use-powershell-to-find-folders-that-match-pattern\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:30:00","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-find-folders-that-match-pattern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-find-folders-that-match-pattern\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Find Folders that Match Pattern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to find folders with names that match a specific pattern.<\/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 find the path to folders that have names that match a specific pattern?<\/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 and the&nbsp;<b>&ndash;Filter<\/b>&nbsp;parameter with a pattern that matches the name, and then <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;specify the&nbsp; &ndash;Directory parameter. Here is an example that matches folders that have a four-letter name:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">Get-ChildItem E:\\Data\\ScriptingGuys -filter &quot;????&quot; -Directory |<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">&nbsp;% { $_.fullname }<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><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: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to find folders with names that match a specific pattern. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to find the path to folders that have names that match a specific pattern? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-ChildItem&nbsp;cmdlet and the&nbsp;&ndash;Filter&nbsp;parameter with a pattern that matches the name, and then &nbsp; &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-6841","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: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to find folders with names that match a specific pattern. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to find the path to folders that have names that match a specific pattern? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-ChildItem&nbsp;cmdlet and the&nbsp;&ndash;Filter&nbsp;parameter with a pattern that matches the name, and then &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6841","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=6841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6841\/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=6841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}