powershell contains not working

Question

I am trying filter by the name of each share using $Share.Name. However, when I try to use -contains in the if statement below, I get no r

Answer 1

You can do this in one line:

Get-WmiObject -Class win32_share | where -Property Name -like "*admin*" | % { "$($_.Name) - $($_.Path)" }

Don't forget the asterisks in the where statement. It looks for exact values in that case.

If you want to write it out, this does the same thing:

$shares = Get-WmiObject -Class win32_share

# I pipe the $shares collection into the where-object command to filter on "admin"
$adminshares = $shares | where -property Name -like "*admin*"

# now we can loop with a foreach, which has the "%" operator as it's shorthand in the oneliner
foreach ($share in $adminshares) 
{
    # variables in strings are a bit weird in powershell, but you have to wrap them like this
    write-host "$($share.Name) - $($share.Path)"
}