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Nicktab
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May 25, 2023

wordconv - unable to exclude .docx

Hello everyone,   below you can find my script. i can't exclude .docx. I tried without wipe whereobject etc or with it, but anyway, .docx are still in the variable $FILEDOC .... i'm missing somethi...
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Nicktab
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Harm_Veenstra

Hello,

 

does it works for you?

i tried it -> no way. in my $FILEDOC there are .docx .ps1 file, not only .doc 

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Harm_Veenstra
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Jun 01, 2023

Nicktab 

I created a test folder with a docx and doc file:

 

When I run this, I only get the docx file:
C:\Users\HarmVeenstra> Get-ChildItem -LiteralPath d:\temp\test -Recurse -Include *.docx -name
New Microsoft Word Document.docx

When I run this, I only get the doc file:

C:\Users\HarmVeenstra> Get-ChildItem -LiteralPath d:\temp\test -Recurse -Include *.doc -name
New Microsoft Word Document.doc


So the -Include doc does work in my opinion 🙂 

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    Nicktab
    Copper Contributor
    Jun 02, 2023

    Hi,

    i tested it again... i found why it works for you and not for me. Try it without recurse... you'll get every files, not only the included file . i don't want to get all subfolders file but only the first level of folder, i cannot use recurse. Thank you anyway 🙂

    i'll continue my script with this

    $FILEDOC = Get-ChildItem -LiteralPath "$PATH" -Name -File
    foreach ($DOC in $FILEDOC)
    {
    if ($DOC -like "*.doc" -and $DOC -notlike "*.docx")
    {
    blablabla
    }
    }

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