Search File Paths Based on File Name Array

Question

I have two string arrays in my PowerShell script:

$search = @('File1', 'File2');
$paths = @('C:\Foo\File1.pdf', 'C:\Foo\Bar.doc', 'C:\Foo\File2.txt');

How can I get all file paths which contain the file names from the search array? Can this be done in a pipeline?

Martin Brandl · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-19 10:11:17Z

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You could use the GetFileNameWithoutExtension method to retrieve the filename of the path and use -in to filter them:

$paths | ? { [System.IO.Path]::GetFileNameWithoutExtension($_) -in $search }

answered Jan 19, 2016 at 10:11

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Ansgar Wiechers · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-19 10:19:02Z

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If you need to do partial matches you could do something like this:

$paths | Where-Object {
  $filename = Split-Path $_ -Leaf
  $search | Where-Object { $filename -like "*$_*" }
}

answered Jan 19, 2016 at 10:19

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