Question

I like to use the following code to emulate the Unix “find” behavior:

ls DIRECTORY -recurse -include PATTERN | foreach { "$_" }

In fact, there are a couple of other commands that I’d like to append this | foreach { "$_" } to. So I’m trying to find a way to make this easier to type. I tried stuff like this:

function xfind {
    ls $args | foreach { "$_" }
}

And then I invoked it like so:

xfind DIRECTORY -recurse -include PATTERN

But that seemed to do the wrong thing…

Answer 1

Consider simply to use the -name switch of the Get-ChildItem (aka ls, dir):

ls DIRECTORY -recurse -include PATTERN -name

This way is native, clean, and effective.