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How to find a file which contains characters and extension in recurse mode in Powershell?

I try to find all the file which contains $var and end with ".log" and I need it to be Recursive

I tried this 

 $logDirectoryPath = $Directory + "\*"       
Get-ChildItem -Path $logDirectoryPath -Include *$iniContent["Search"]["FileWith"]*, *.log -Recurse -File -Name | ForEach-Object {
                $lbox_files.Items.Add($_)  # we add file to a list
            }

But this command return every single files regardless of $var and Recurse seems disable :/

the file look like this : foo_test.log

another file : \user\foo_1.log

(PS : by $var I mean it depends of $iniContent["Search"]["FileWith"] value)

Solution

  • You can find all files by this comand:

    Get-ChildItem -Path "c:\" -Recurse -File -Filter "*$var*.log"

    It's return all files in folder that contain in name $var and ends with ".log"