I have a folder to which I have the path to, lets say C:/Users/Me/Project

Inside the Project folder there are 2 or more folders and one of them has a certain word like data1-latest. Only one folder inside Project has the word "latest" in it. The words before "latest" are unknown/random. How can I get the full path to data1-latest while only knowing it contains the word "latest" in it's name? I know I can use "cd C:/Users/Me/Project/*/specific folder that exists only here" but I would like to store the path to this folder inside a variable.

CodePudding user response：

Try this:

$fullPath = (Get-ChildItem -LiteralPath C:/Users/Me/Project -Filter *latest -Directory).FullName

• Using -LiteralPath so PowerShell doesn't try to interpret it as a wildcard path. When using -Path instead, PowerShell applies its own extended wildcard syntax like [a-z], which sometimes comes as a surprise when a path contains literal [ and ] characters.
• -Directory makes sure we only get directories
• -Filter filters the directories using the wildcard syntax supported by the filesystem provider
• .FullName gets a property from the FileSystemInfo class, which is the common base class for both DirectoryInfo and FileInfo, outputted by Get-ChildItem.
• To make sure you have found exactly one directory matching *latest, you may check the Count property:

  if( $fullPath.Count -ne 1 ) { 
      Write-Error 'Could not find exactly ONE directory matching *latest.' 
  }