by chuckstaburnt at 2013-03-21 06:36:32
Hello,by Klaas at 2013-03-21 08:17:48
What I’m trying to do, but am running into difficulty with, is finding directory with the LastWriteTime, ignoring any files which may be in that same directory.
For instance:
I have a directory C:\folder and in that folder is FolderA, FolderB, FolderC, FileA, and FileB. I don’t care about FileA or FileB and I want to exclude them from the seatch. Currently, This is the line in question.$LatestDirectory = GCI -path "C:\folder" | sort LastWriteTime | select -last 1 -expandproperty name
If FileA is newer than FolderA, B, or C, then $LatestDirectory = FileA.
Please help.I’m guessing this is rather simple and I’m overlooking something. Thank you.
Try adding the -directory switch:by chuckstaburnt at 2013-03-21 10:29:03$LatestDirectory = GCI -path "C:\folder" -directory | sort LastWriteTime | select -last 1 -expandproperty name
When I tried that, I got the following error:by Nobody at 2013-03-21 10:55:16Get-ChildItem : A parameter cannot be found that matched parameter name ‘directory’.
This should do the trick.by chuckstaburnt at 2013-03-21 16:33:04$LatestDirectory = GCI -path "C:\folder" | where-object {$.psiscontainer}|sort LastWriteTime | select -last 1 -expandproperty name
That appears to have done the trick! Thank you. Would you mind telling me what $.psiscontainer means? Are there other objects identified by something like this?by Lembasts at 2013-03-21 17:22:00
psicontainer is true if the object is a folder and false if it is a file.
The reason the -directory switch didnt work is because I think it requires powershell v3. Probably a good idea to get and install that anyway.