easiest way to read all lines from all files in a directory in powershell
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23-09-2019 - |
Question
This expression seems to work:
gci . | % { gc $_}
This also seem to work as well (I suspect it is a little slower):
gci . | Select-String .
Is there a better way of writing a expression to dump all lines from all files out in a directory?
Thanks
Solution
Well you don't want to throw directories at Get-Content. Try this to filter out dirs:
Get-ChildItem | Where {!$_.PSIsContainer} | Get-Content
or using aliases:
gci | ?{!$_.PSIsContainer} | gc
Also note that Get-Content takes the filename as pipeline input so you don't need the Foreach-Object cmdlet. You can pipe directly to Get-Content.
OTHER TIPS
Won't this one do?
gc * -ea SilentlyContinue
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