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Mahesh_B
Copper Contributor
Jul 01, 2021

Script to return true only if satisfies condition

Hi All, I have a requirement where I need to create script. That script would return true only if size of specific file is greater than 1 KB else it should return false. Any help regarding this wo...
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yuzoyox
Iron Contributor
Jul 01, 2021

Mahesh_B 

 

1kb = 1000bytes

 

an empty text file have 2 bytes.

 

$filepath = Get-Item 'C:\Users\YUZOYOX\Documents\bat\comparq\teste\oia.txt'
if ($filepath.Length -gt '1000')
{
Write-Output "true"
} else {
Write-Output "false"
}

 

dont forget to mark the post as a solution, thank you

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psophos
Brass Contributor
Jul 09, 2021

yuzoyox   you can do it this way too:

$filepath = Get-Item 'D:\Data\emp.csv'
if ($filepath.Length -gt 1KB)
{
    Write-Output $true
} else {
    Write-Output $false
}

It's just a slight mod to your code.

You can compare directly to 1kb, and

it's usually better to return $true or $false.  Unless the script is expecting the strings.

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