Below, you will find a variety of different PowerShell commands & scripts which I’ve needed in the past, or continue to use day-to-day. The post will be continually updated, and you probably found yourself here via a search engine.
Finding files which share the same file name, ignoring their extension
Useful for identifying media which has been transcoded into two different formats.
Get-ChildItem -Recurse -File | Group-Object -Property Directory,BaseName | Where-Object Count -gt 1 | Select-Object NameHaving two files, Lost - S01E01.mp4 and Lost - S01E01.mkv – would output the following:
PS C:\Media> Get-ChildItem -Recurse -File | Group-Object -Property Directory,BaseName | Where-Object Count -gt 1 | Select-Object Name
Name
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C:\Media, Lost - S01E01