Script to return true only if satisfies condition

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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 would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Mahesh

4 Replies

@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

Hi @yuzoyox ,

 

Script seems to be not working. Created script and checked for file with Size 53.3 KB. Still it returned TRUE.

 

$filepath = Get-Item 'D:\Data\emp.csv'
if ($filepath.Length -gt '1000')
{
Write-Output "true"
} else {
Write-Output "false"
}

 

Thanks,

Mahesh

Hi Mahesh,
as per your request, it need to return true if it is greather than 1000.
if convert your 53.3KB it will be in 53300, 53300 > 1000 = true.

@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.