Hello,
I know that with powershell we can get the hash (MD5, etc) from files/folders and subfolders. I was able to do it with to get one single folder and its content.
I would like to know/get a script or having help how to write a script that gets the hash from several files/folders finto only one csv file instead of having multiple csv files from each folders.
I am struggling with this and any support would be much appreciatted.
Thank you
Hello,
This should do the job :
Get-Childitem -path "<folder1>","<folder2>","<folder3>" -recurse | Get-FileHash | Export-csv -path "<myfile>" -Delimiter ";" -NoTypeInformation
Be careful with where you will put <myfile> because it will throw you an error if the file is located in folder1, folder2 or folder3.
I didn't include error handling
Regards,
Hello,
Thank you for this.
It seems working as expected, however, all the information is whithin the same column and I need to split in diferent collums.
Also I need to have a relative path so when comparing files copied from one server tro another to avoid any error with paths and focus on the files/folders.
How can I do that?
Apologises as I am new on this.
Thank you
You can change the delimiter if you want by default I'm always using ";" but you can use ",".
Regarding the relative path you want to have only the parent of the file or the root folder ?
Regards,
I am going to check for several folders and its contents how can use the variable?
Such as this: $variabel1 = "<folder1>","<folder2>","<folder3>"
How can I have multiple folders to extract the content in one variable or do I have to have multiple variables?
I need to construct a relative path from the directory at the top of the tree...
For example, if the file in question lives at absolute path C:\Users\MyUsername\Desktop\test.txt, and I decide that the root directory is C:\Users\MyUsername, the relative path would be Desktop\test.txt, which is what should be stored in the CSV.
But I do not know how to write the script for that or what is missing
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@Ed7 - another option for your relative path challenge:
param (
$folders = @("C:\temp_fotos\", "C:\fotos_temp\") #case sensitive
)
$allFiles = foreach($folder in $folders) {
Get-Childitem -path $folder -recurse |
select FullName,Name,Length |
foreach {
$hash = Get-FileHash $_.FullName
add-member -InputObject $_ -NotePropertyName Hash -NotePropertyValue $hash.Hash
add-member -InputObject $_ -NotePropertyName RelativePath -NotePropertyValue $_.FullName.Replace($folder, '') -PassThru
}
}
$allFiles | select -First 10 | ft RelativePath, Hash
@ClementBETACORNE :Thanks its worked for me as well.....!! Could you also provide the commad to get hash value output to csv file with date & time stamp
In line 7 above, just add any other System.IO.DirectoryInfo property. e.g.
select FullName,Name,Length,CreationTime,LastWriteTime |
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