$location = read-host "Where do you want to look"
$string = read-host "Enter string to search for"
$temp = dir $location -recurse -ea 'SilentlyContinue' | ?{$_.name -match $string}
if ($temp.exists)
{echo "At least one file found.."
$temp.name
}
Elseif ($temp.count -gt 1){ echo "Found more than one file...."
$temp | foreach-object {echo $_.name}
}
else {echo "No files found"}
"People designing defenses who have never had them evaluated by a good attacker is kind of like learning one of those martial arts that look more like dancing than fighting. They look nice, but when you get into a fight your dance kungfu isn’t going to help you not get your ass kicked." - Dan Guido
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Powershell custom find script
I have been recently playing with some file audit/data loss prevention type stuff and I had the need to search for certain filenames on a system fairly quickly. As a result, I wrote a little powershell script to do just that. It is nothing special, I just figured I would post it on here.
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