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Powershell $idValue doesn't write the extracted ID, but writes "TRUE" instead -- why?
I am writing a Windows PowerShell script to split a text file based on a delimiter, and create output filenames with an incrementing number and a captured identifier string.
I've checked for syntax ...
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Select all lines starting with a given string and ending with " with Regex [duplicate]
Using Regex I would like to select all the contents between two " of all the lines that begin with this string:
[2]
1 string data = "
I tried the following code:
(?<=\[2\][^=]+? 1 ...
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Powershell rename-item using RegEx for filename irregular pattern
I have filenames in a directory that have different beginning strings of characters that I wish to strip out and leave just the alpha characters + file extension:
[example]
1-09. But Not for Me.mp3
1-...
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How do we search for files which contain a specific word and end in a specific file-type suffix?
How do we use Microsoft Windows PowerShell and Regular Expressions (Regex) in order to find all of the pictures (image files) on a computer such that the file name contains the word "dog".
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How to delete a line based on a regex string in Powershell?
I want to validate if the line above a certain line is there, then ok. if else, then delete that line and remove the empty space ? Can this be done in powershell? please help
If before all lines ...
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Extract variable names from .txt file with RegEx
I want to extract a variable name (e.g. $00incomplete_frame) from a text file and place the names in a variable for use in PowerShell.
The source variable names do not contain spaces. A source file ...
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Select two 1 hour (HH:MM) string values with regular expressions
I have the string or text data:
[string]$hours = @"
10/10/2022
08:11
14:34
06:23 00:00
11/10/2022
08:05
14:28
06:23 00:00
12/10/2022
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00:00 00:00 Día Festivo
13/10/2022
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select two random words from a text with regular expression
I have the following code:
[string]$namesList = @"
casa fuentes, jose
lopez casimiro juan
gazquez san antonio
anto vazques
"@
How do I select the first two words?
output expected:
casa ...
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How can I use Powershell to rename all files where the name has the format "digits [space] name with spaces" to "digits [hyphen] name with spaces"?
I have a lot of files with names of the format "digits [space] name with spaces" or "(digits) [space] name with spaces" e.g.:
23 Filename 23 with spaces.txt
(47) Filename 47 with ...
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How to implement regex on a powershell find and replace to quickly change file names in windows 10?
Hi I have a set of files in a folder (windows 10) that are named something like this:
asfdjlaksjfdi09908jfakl.part1.rar
aabdjkhihsdjkf.part2.rar
sdjklufia9798uiownlnsadkfasdFASDFrwe34342.part3.rar
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Powershell: How do I shift a date (format: yyyymmdd) from any position in the file name to end of the file name?
Currently im using
dir | Rename-Item -NewName {$_.name -replace "",""}
to rename files in a directory. The file names vary and need to be unified.
Examples for file names:
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Trouble chaining together foreach and if/then/else in Powershell
I have a text document containing 80 filenames of a similar format. The last 4 digits of each filename indicates its subdirectory location, for example:
wheat_bread_12345678.doc will always be located ...
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Regex: Can be find the html links (string) on several html files, which are repeated? (find duplicates)
I have a lots of meta description, as this one, in my html pages.
<meta name="description" content="My name is prince."/>
<meta name="description" content="...
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Regex: Put some tags at the beginning of the line, but only those that are framed in a comment html
I wanna put some tags at the beginning of the line, but only those that are framed in a comment html. For example:
<!-- ARTICOL START -->
<p class="text_obisnuit">I want go home&...
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PowerShell script to check the name format of all folders in a directory and create subfolders in each one
I have a Main folder which contains many folders with the name format: capital letter and four numbers (A4431). The script in PowerShell I am trying to write needs to go through all the folders in my ...
