Would you like to learn how to search for a file using Powershell? In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to use Powershell to search for files on a computer running Windows.

• Windows 2012 R2
• Windows 2016
• Windows 2019
• Windows 10

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Tutorial Powershell - Search for files

Start a Powershell command-line.

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Search for a file on the entire disk.

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Here is the command output.

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Search for a file on the entire disk, but display the full path.

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Here is the command output.

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In our example, we searched for a text file named TEST in the entire disk.

Search for modified files in the last 10 days.

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Here is the command output.

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In our example, we searched for text files modified in the last 10 days.

Congratulations! You are able to search files using Powershell.