My CSV looks like
User,Location
Louis.Smith,CH
I can use a Cmd-Let to show me users from the file
Import-Csv "decommisioned_users.csv"| Where-Object{$_.Location -match "CH"}
I want to move folders to another folder
So in the above example,
We would create a String that looks like
F:\Users\louis.smith
and move that folder to
F:\ArchivedUsers\louis.smith
I can't seem to figure out how to get "louis.smith" from my CSV file (1st column)
Use ForEach-Object. Example:
Import-Csv "decommissioned_users.csv" | Where-Object { $_.Location -eq "CH" } | ForEach-Object {
Move-Object F:\Users\$($_.User) F:\ArchivedUsers\$($_.User) -WhatIf
}
Of course, remove -WhatIf to actually run the command.
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Hi I have a script that reads a csv file, creates a json file, checks the users in the file against a service, then i get the result as a json file.
I take that result and finds the users i csv file and creates a new file.
I do that with a where-object
But i need to add some extra values on every user before i export it to csv
This is my 2 lines for finding users and then export
$matches = $users | where-object { $_.number -in $response.allowedItemIds } | Select-Object -Property Number,Surname,Forename,Emailaddress
$matches | Export-Csv -path $Saved$savefile -NoTypeInformation -Append
Is that possible or do i need to do a for each?
Cheers
Assuming I've interpretted your question correctly, you should be able to use PowerShell's Calculated Properties for this purpose.
For example, if you wanted to add a field called "Date" and set the current Date/Time to each user row, you could do the following:
$matches = $users | where-object { $_.number -in $response.allowedItemIds } | Select-Object -Property Number,Surname,Forename,Emailaddress, #{Name="Date";Expression={Get-Date}}
The Expression value can either be a static value such as "StaticValue", a variable such as $i (useful if used as part of a loop, for example) or more complex value that is returned from other cmdlets (as in my example above)
I would like to rename files and folders based on keywords found in a CSV file.
The CSV holds the search and replace keywords that will make up file and folder names.
Search | Replace
Document | DTX
Processing | PRX
Implementation | IMX
...
Not all the file names include each word in the file name.
Not all the folders will include each word in the folder name
Powershell will have to search the child item ie the folder and file
names.
If it finds the word (match) - Substitute from the CSV
I have looked at these threads to help me:
Using Powershell to recursively rename directories using a lookup file
powershell script to rename all files in directory
http://code.adonline.id.au/batch-rename-files/
I have only managed below snippet
$folder = "C:\Folders" #target folder containing files
$csv = "C:\FileNameKeywords.csv" #path to CSV file
cd ($folder);
Import-Csv ($csv) | foreach {
Rename-Item -Path $_.Path -NewName $_.Filename
}
It only replaces one at a time.
Question:
How can I recursively search and replace in file and Folder Names using a CSV as a look up or reference file.
When you have the need to look up values by other values the usual go-to data structure is a dictionary, or in PowerShell terms a hashtable. Read your CSV into a dictionary like this:
$keywords = #{}
Import-Csv $csv | ForEach-Object {
$keywords[$_.Search] = $_.Replace
}
Then traverse your folder tree and build the new filenames by replacing each key with its respective value:
Get-ChildItem $folder -Recurse | ForEach-Object {
$newname = $_.Name
foreach ($word in $keywords.Keys) {
$newname = $newname.Replace($word, $keywords[$word])
}
if ($_.Name -ne $newname) {
Rename-Item -Path $_.FullName -NewName $newname
}
}
ill give it a shot. I'm assuming search and replace are your headers in this scenario. this in addition to your $folder and $csv variables.
$csvobject=import-csv $csv
Foreach($obj in $csvobject){
$search=$obj.search
$replace=$obj.replace
get-childitem path $folder |where{$_.name -like "$($obj.search)"} | rename-item -newname {$_.name -replace "$search", "$replace"} }
The replace handles regex so u will need to make sure Any special characters are properly escaped.
This is a PowerShell question, not a SharePoint question.
I'm using a script to grab an inventory of SharePoint features, web parts, etc. It outputs each type of report in the same directory as csv files. So I'll end up with a directory on my computer with the csv files.
I'd like to run another PowerShell script after the first one that converts these csvs into html files for easily readable reports.
I'm getting stuck on the part where I would import-csv each file and create each html file with similarly named html files.
Here's what I have so far. Can anyone help me complete this to do what I want it to do? To use Import-CSV, I have to specify the file name as you can see in $dir. Is there another way?
$dir = "C:\Users\me\Desktop\output\TestInvSiteCollections.csv"
dir -LiteralPath $dir | % {Import-Csv $dir}
or use this somehow..
Import-Csv -LiteralPath $dir | ConvertTo-Html | Out-File "C:\Users\me\Desktop\output\myhtmlfile.html"
I would do it like this:
Get-ChildItem -Path 'C:\Users\me\Desktop\output\*.csv' | ForEach-Object {
Import-Csv $_ | ConvertTo-Html | Out-File -FilePath (Join-Path -Path $_.DirectoryName -ChildPath ($_.BaseName + '.html'));
}
I'm not entirely sure I find html tables easier to read than csv files. Excel's filtering and sorting is too useful.
Here's your code. It should split the name of the file and add the extension.
Import-Csv -LiteralPath $dir | ConvertTo-Html | Out-File ($dir.Split(".")[0]+".html")
This is a slightly more verbose method, but I generally prefer readable code over conciseness for maintainability:
#get the list of csv files
$csvFiles = Get-ChildItem $path -Filter *.csv
foreach ($file in $csvFiles)
{
#create FileInfo object
[System.IO.FileInfo]$fileInfo = "$path\$file"
#Get base name of file
$baseName = [System.IO.Path]::GetFileNameWithoutExtension($file.Name)
#do HTML conversion
Import-Csv $fileInfo.FullName | ConvertTo-Html | Out-File "$htmlPath\$baseName.html"
}
This is working code assuming you have $path defined somewhere and can obviously be modified to suite your needs.
I have a set of files (OldName) in a Windows directory that I would like to rename (NewName) based on the following CSV file:
OldName,NewName
Sources/texas play_PGC_Cpgc_entryPoint_Cbp_1.f4v,01 Texas Play.f4v
Sources/texas play_PGC_Cpgc_entryPoint_Dbp_1.f4v,02 First Song.f4v
Sources/texas play_PGC_Cpgc_entryPoint_Ebp_1.f4v,03 Yellow Rose.f4v
I'm not sure how to loop thru the CSV file... finding each file and replacing.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
First Import Your CSV file into powershell
$AnyVariableName = Import-Csv "$env:USERPROFILE:\Desktop\directoryname.txt"
Note: In my example, the path to the CSV file is on my desktop, but it may be different in yours.
Then use a foreach loop rename the items
foreach ($objName in $AnyVariableName){
Rename-Item $objName.OldName $objName.NewName
}
One way to do it is to create two lists and loop though each of them. The CSV file will be a reference list, so we'll grab the contents and convert it from CSV then store it in a variable
$CSVRef = Get-Content "C:\Path\To\CSV.csv" | ConvertFrom-CSV
Then we'll get the list of files who's names you want to change, and loop through each file. From inside the loop you can run another loop to find the current name in your reference list, and then change it to the new name.
Get-ChildItem "C:\path\to\f4v\files" -Filter *.f4v | ForEach-Object {
#Grab the current item in a variable to access it within the second loop
$CurrentFile = $_
$CSVRef | ForEach-Object {
if ($CurrentFile.Name -ilike $_.OldName) {
Rename-Item $CurrentFile.FullPath $_.NewName
}
}
}
So during the second loop we try to compare the file name with every "OldName" item in the CSV file list. If the OldName matches somewhere in the current file we're looping through then we run Rename-Item and provide it the NewName. It should automatically rename the file.
Combining both examples works great
$CSVRef = Import-Csv "C:\Temp\Filename.txt"
Get-ChildItem "C:\Temp\FileFolder" -Filter *.pdf | ForEach-Object {
$CurrentFile = $_
ForEach ($objName in $CSVRef) {
if ($CurrentFile.Name -ilike $objName.OLDNAME) {
Rename-Item $CurrentFile.FullName $objName.NEWNAME
}
}
}
I'm attempting to write a script which will read in a CSV generated by querying AD for user information (that part is done) but then will allow me to add a string to the beginning of each value of a column in the CSV file and then export it.
For instance we have this CSV file:
"displayname","Office"
Bob,7142
Janet,8923
SantaClaus,0912
NicCage,0823
I want to take each entry for "Office", add the string "BUG" before it and then export it back out. The modified CSV should look like:
"displayname","Office"
Bob,BUG7142
Janet,BUG8923
SantaClaus,BUG0912
NicCage,BUG0823
At this point, I've been attempting to read in just the "Office" column and then displaying it with "Write-Host". The idea being that if I can do that then maybe I can create a new variable that would be something like:
$BUG = "BUG"
$NewVar = $BUG$Office
Which would hopefully look like the second CSV file. I am extremely new to powershell scripting.
The attempts I've made so far are these:
Attempt #1:
$UserList = Import-CSV C:\Users\username\CSV.csv
$UserList | ForEach-Object ($_.Office) { $UserList }
Attempt #2:
$projectName = import-csv C:\Users\username\CSV.csv | % {$_.Office}
$BUG = "BUG"
$projectName | ForEach-Object ($_) {$projectName}
Attempt #3:
$UserList = Import-CSV C:\Users\username\CSV.csv
#ForEach ($Office in $Userlist) {
#Write-Host $UserList.Office
#}
Attempt #4:
Import-Csv "C:\Users\username\CSV.csv" -Header ("displayname","Office","whenCreated","EmailAddress") | Select-Object Office | Export-CSV -Path C:\users\Username\test.csv
I have gotten it to read out just the Office numbers before using the ForEach-Object loop structure but then it never stops reading out the office numbers so that's unhelpful.
I think I'm going in the right direction, but I just can't figure out how to modify a column like this.
Instead of trying to extract the Office column, just pipe the full data set (all columns) to ForEach-Object, change the value of the Office property and pipe it back to Export-Csv:
$Prefix = "BUG"
Import-Csv .\file.csv | ForEach-Object {
$_.Office = $Prefix + $_.Office
$_
} | Export-Csv .\file_modified.csv -NoTypeInformation