I'm a complete beginner to Powershell and scripting, and have been successfully been using Out-GridView to display some properties of the files I have in my directories using the following:
dir D:\Folder1\$type -Recurse | Select Fullname,Directory,LastWriteTime | out-gridview
where I specifiy the file extension with $type = "*.pdf" for instance.
I would also like to start comparing files using hashcodes so I have tried this command:
ls | Get-Filehash
However, I would like to have the hashcodes in the output window as a seperate column with out-gridview. Is this possible? I've tried
dir D:\Folder1\$type -Recurse | Select Fullname,Directory,LastWriteTime,Filehash | out-gridview
and
dir D:\Folder1\$type -Recurse | Select Fullname,Directory,LastWriteTime | Get-Filehash | out-gridview
Of course neither of these work.
Does anyone have a way of generating hashcodes for a specific file extension only?
Many thanks in advance!
You can do this by using a calculated property with Select-Object:
Get-ChildItem -Path 'D:\Folder1\$type'-Recurse |
Select-Object FullName,Directory,LastWriteTime, @{Label='FileHash'; Expression={(Get-Filehash -Path $_.FullName).Hash}} |
Out-GridView
You should see a new column in the grid view called 'Filehash' that contains the SHA256 hash of the file. You can chage the algorithm (to, say, MD5) using the -Algorithm parameter of Get-FileHash.
If you're wondering what this is doing, the important parts are:
@{...}
signifies a hashtable. e.g. a set of key-value pairs
label
is the key that defines what your property (column name) will be in the grid view
expression defines the code snippet ({...}) that calculates the value of this property
$_
signifies that we are working with the 'current' object (file in this case) passing along the pipeline