GenXdev.FileSystem
A Windows PowerShell module for basic and advanced file management tasks
* ✅ Simple but agile utility for renaming text throughout a project directory,
including file- and directory- names: Rename-InProject -> rip
* ✅ Pretty good wrapper for robocopy, Microsoft's robuust file copy utility: Start-RoboCopy -> rc, xc
* ✅ Folder synchronization
* ✅ Support for extra long pathnames > 256 characters
* ✅ Restartable mode backups
* ✅ Support for copying and fixing security settings
* ✅ Advanced file attribute features
* ✅ Advanced symbolic link and junction support
* ✅ Monitor mode (restart copying after change threshold)
* ✅ Optimization features for LargeFiles, multithreaded copying and network compression
* ✅ Recovery mode (copy from failing disks)
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* ✅ Find files with Find-Item -> l
* ✅ Returns relative paths by default
* ✅ Or passes Get-ChildItem objects to the pipeline
* ✅ Search all drives with -AllDrives
* ✅ Accepts wildcards
* ✅ Match files with regex patterns for searching within file content with -Pattern
* ✅ Delete complete directory contents with Remove-AllItems -> sdel
* ✅ Optionally delete the root folder as well
* ✅ Move files and directories with Move-ItemWithTracking
* ✅ Preserves file system links and references for tools like Git
Start-RoboCopy [-Source] <String> [[-DestinationDirectory] <String>] [[-Files] <String[]>]
[-Mirror] [-Move]
[-IncludeSecurity] [-SkipDirectories]
[-CopyOnlyDirectoryTreeStructureAndEmptyFiles]
[-FileExcludeFilter <String[]>]
[-SkipAllSymbolicLinks] [-SkipSymbolicFileLinks] [-CopySymbolicLinksAsLinks]
[-SkipFilesWithoutArchiveAttribute] [-ResetArchiveAttributeAfterSelection]
[-AttributeIncludeFilter <String>] [-AttributeExcludeFilter <String>]
[-SetAttributesAfterCopy <String>] [-RemoveAttributesAfterCopy <String>]
[-MinFileSize <Int32>] [-MaxFileSize <Int32>]
[-MinFileAge <Int32>] [-MaxFileAge <Int32>]
[-MinLastAccessAge <Int32>] [-MaxLastAccessAge <Int32>] [-RecoveryMode] [-MonitorMode]
[-MonitorModeThresholdMinutes <Int32>] [-MonitorModeThresholdNrOfChanges <Int32>]
[-MonitorModeRunHoursFrom <Int32>] [-MonitorModeRunHoursUntil <Int32>] [-LogFilePath <String>]
[-LogfileOverwrite] [-LogDirectoryNames] [-LogAllFileNames] [-Unicode] [-LargeFiles]
[-MultiThreaded] [-CompressibleContent] [[-Override] <String>]
[-Force]
[-WhatIf] [<CommonParameters>]Rename-InProject [[-Source] <String>]
[-FindText] <String>
[-ReplacementText] <String>
[-WhatIf] [<CommonParameters>]Install-Module "GenXdev.FileSystem"
Import-Module "GenXdev.FileSystem"Update-Module| Command | aliases | Description |
|---|---|---|
| _AssureTypes | ||
| AssurePester | Ensures Pester testing framework is available for use. | |
| Expand-Path | ep | Expands any given file reference to a full pathname. |
| Find-DuplicateFiles | fdf | Find duplicate files across multiple directories based on configurable criteria. |
| Find-Item | l | Performs advanced file and directory searches with content filtering capabilities. |
| Invoke-Fasti | fasti | Extracts archive files in the current directory and deletes the originals. |
| Move-ItemWithTracking | Moves files and directories while preserving filesystem links and references. | |
| Move-ToRecycleBin | recycle | Moves files and directories to the Windows Recycle Bin safely. |
| Remove-AllItems | sdel | Recursively removes all content from a directory with advanced error handling. |
| Remove-ItemWithFallback | rmf | Removes files or directories with multiple fallback mechanisms for reliable deletion. |
| Remove-OnReboot | Marks files or directories for deletion during the next system boot. | |
| Rename-InProject | rip | Performs case-sensitive text replacement throughout a project directory. |
| Start-RoboCopy | xc, rc | Provides a PowerShell wrapper for Microsoft's Robust Copy (RoboCopy) utility. |