PowerShell Get-Content “foreach” on multiple files from multiple directories

Question

I want to search the content of specific folder for Web.config files. Here's the script I'm using but it doesn't work and don't know how to tweak it.

$folders=get-childitem E:\WebSystems\Configs\ | select Name
foreach($folder in $folders)
{
    get-content E:\WebSystems\Configs\$folder\Web.config
}

What exactly doesn't work about it? – djv Aug 05 '14 at 19:16 — djv, Aug 05 '14 at 19:16

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 05 '14 at 19:09

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Please try the following code ,

$folders=get-childitem E:\WebSystems\Configs\ | select Name
foreach($folder in $folders)
{
$folderName = $folder.Name;
get-content E:\WebSystems\Configs\$folderName\Web.config
}

And please ensure the Folder *E:\WebSystems\Configs* has only subfolders and no files. If you are still facing error, please post the exact error details.

answered Aug 05 '14 at 19:09

Godwin

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You're the man! I also just found another way: get-childitem E:\WebSystems\Configs\ | Foreach-Object{get-content E:\WebSystems\Configs\$_\Web.config} – user3911596 Aug 05 '14 at 19:27
By the way, how to do you replace a string to those individual files? – user3911596 Aug 05 '14 at 20:16
Thanks , I just found something simliar in [this thread](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17144355/string-replace-file-content-with-powershell) , see if this works for you. – Godwin Aug 05 '14 at 20:23

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 05 '14 at 19:07

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How about

get-childitem E:\WebSystems\Configs\* -include Web.Config -recurse

What do you want to do with the collection of Web.Config files? (Get-Content probably isn't very helpful because the output won't tell you which files is in which directory.)

answered Aug 05 '14 at 19:07

Bill_Stewart

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 05 '14 at 20:12

You can just do

get-content E:\WebSystems\Configs\*\Web.config

to get an array of all Web.config files. If you want to iterate over each file you can do

get-childitem E:\WebSystems\Configs\*\Web.config | foreach{
  get-content $_.fullname }

For seaching you can then use

Get-Help Select-String

PowerShell Get-Content “foreach” on multiple files from multiple directories

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