{"id":6861,"date":"2015-04-04T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-04T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/04\/04\/powertip-use-filter-parameter-with-get-childitem-in-powershell\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:30:01","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:30:01","slug":"powertip-use-filter-parameter-with-get-childitem-in-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-filter-parameter-with-get-childitem-in-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use Filter Parameter with Get-ChildItem in PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/b>: Use the <\/span>–Filter<\/b> parameter with the <\/span>Get-ChildItem<\/b> Windows PowerShell cmdlet.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Hey, Why can't I get the –Filter<\/b> parameter to work with the Get-ChildItem <\/b>cmdlet?<\/p>\n

\"Hey, Try using the FileSystem<\/b> provider. The –Filter<\/b> parameter will accept two wildcard characters ( ?<\/b> and * <\/b>)
           and a single string as a filter (not an array of strings like the –Include<\/b> parameter uses). Here is an example
           of using –Filter<\/b> to look for document files:<\/p>\n

Get-ChildItem E:\\Data -filter "*doc*"<\/p>\n

\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summary: Use the –Filter parameter with the Get-ChildItem Windows PowerShell cmdlet.  Why can't I get the –Filter parameter to work with the Get-ChildItem cmdlet?  Try using the FileSystem provider. The –Filter parameter will accept two wildcard characters ( ? and * )            and a single string as a filter (not an array of strings like the –Include parameter uses). Here is an example           of […]<\/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":[51,356,3,4,45],"class_list":["post-6861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-getting-started","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-scripting-techniques","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

Summary: Use the –Filter parameter with the Get-ChildItem Windows PowerShell cmdlet.  Why can't I get the –Filter parameter to work with the Get-ChildItem cmdlet?  Try using the FileSystem provider. The –Filter parameter will accept two wildcard characters ( ? and * )            and a single string as a filter (not an array of strings like the –Include parameter uses). Here is an example           of […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6861","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=6861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6861\/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=6861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}