Get full path of the files in PowerShell

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I need to get all the files including the files present in the subfolders that belong to a particular type   I am doing something like this  using Get-ChildItem   Get-ChildItem  C  windows System32  -Recurse   where     extension -eq   txt     However  it s only returning me the files names and not the entire path

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gci  C  WINDOWS System32  -r -include  txt   select fullname

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I am using below script to extact all folder path   Get-ChildItem -path  C    -Recurse -Directory -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue   Select-Object FullName   Out-File  Folder List csv    Full folder path is not coming  After 113 characters  is coming   Example - C  ProgramData Microsoft Windows DeviceMetadataCache dmrccache en-US ec4d5fdd-aa12-400f-83e2-7b0ea6023eb7 Windows

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I used this line command to search   xlm  files in  C  Temp  and the result print fullname path in file  result txt     Get-ChildItem  C  Temp  -Recurse   where     extension -eq   xml     fullname  gt  result txt    In my tests  this syntax works beautiful for me

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This worked for me  and produces a list of names    Thisfile  get-childitem -path 10  -include    JPG  -recurse  fullname   I found it by using get-member -membertype properties  an incredibly useful command  most of the options it gives you are appended with a   lt thing gt   like fullname is here  You can stick the same command       get-member -membertype properties    at the end of any command to get more information on the things you can do with them and how to access those   get-childitem -path 10  -include    JPG  -recurse   get-member -membertype properties

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Add   select FullName to the end of your line above   If you need to actually do something with that afterwards  you might have to pipe it into a foreach loop  like so   get-childitem  C  windows System32  -recurse   where     extension -eq   txt              Write-Host    FullName

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If relative paths are what you want you can just use the -Name flag   Get-ChildItem  C  windows System32  -Recurse -Filter   txt -Name

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Really annoying thing in PS 5  where    won t be the full path within foreach   These are the string versions of FileInfo and DirectoryInfo objects   For some reason a wildcard in the path fixes it  or use Powershell 6 or 7   You can also pipe to get-item in the middle   Get-ChildItem -path C  WINDOWS System32   txt -Recurse   foreach           Get-ChildItem -path C  WINDOWS System32 -Recurse   get-item   foreach            This seems to have been an issue with  Net that got resolved in  Net Core  Powershell 7    Stringification behavior of FileInfo   Directory instances has changed since v6 0 2  7132

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Try this   Get-ChildItem C  windows System32 -Include   txt -Recurse   select -ExpandProperty FullName

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alternative syntax   For some people  directional pipe operators are not their taste  but they rather prefer chaining  See some interesting opinions on this topic shared in roslyn issue tracker  dotnet roslyn 5445    Based on the case and the context  one of this approach can be considered implicit  or indirect   For example  in this case using pipe against enumerable requires special token     aka PowerShell s  THIS  token  might appear distasteful to some   For such fellas  here is a more concise  straight-forward way of doing it with dot chaining    gci   -re -fi   txt  FullName     lt rant  Note that PowerShell s command arguments parser accepts the partial parameter names  So in addition to -recursive  -recursiv  -recursi  -recurs  -recur  -recu  -rec and -re are accepted  but unfortunately not -r    which is the only correct choice that makes sense with single - character  if we go by POSIXy UNIXy conventions    lt  rant gt

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Get-ChildItem -Recurse   txt   Format-Table FullName   That is what I used   I feel it is more understandable as it doesn t contain any loop syntax

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Here s a shorter one    Get-ChildItem C  MYDIRECTORY -Recurse  fullname  gt  filename txt

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This should perform much faster than using late filtering   Get-ChildItem C  WINDOWS System32 -Filter   txt -Recurse          FullName

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Why has nobody used  the foreach loop yet  A pro here is that you can easily name your variable     Note that I m pretty explicit here  This would work as well as the line after    Get-ChildItem -Recurse C  windows System32   txt  fileList   Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Path C  windows System32 -Include   txt foreach   textfile in  fileList          This includes the filename         filePath    textfile fullname       You can replace the next line with whatever you want to      Write-Output  filePath

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You can also use Select-Object like so   Get-ChildItem  C  WINDOWS System32    txt -Recurse   Select-Object FullName

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