Peter Schneider

Get-DocProps Cmdlet for Powershell

I've written a small and rather simple powershell cmdlet which allows you to list the core and application properties of office documents, so that you can do something like this:

Samples:

Get-DocProps –path "*.docx" | where { $_.Creator –eq "John Doe" }

Get-ChildItem "*.docx" | get-docprops | where { $_.Lines –gt 100 } | select Path,Lines

Get-ChildItem * -include "*.docx","*.xlsx" –recurse | get-docprops | select Path, Creator, Lines, Paragraphs

Get-ChildItem * -include "*.docx" –recurse | get-docprops | measure-object Words,Lines,Paragraphs –sum –min –max -ave

The Cmdlet itself reads the docProps/app.xml and docProps/core.xml files inside Office 2007 documents using the System.IO.Packaging namespace, so therefore install .NET Framework 3.0 to use this cmdlet.

You can download the DocProps Cmdlet here. (No warranty, provided "AS IS", use at your own risk ;-)) If you are interested in the source code just drop me a mail.

After installation just run

add-pssnapin DocProps.Snapin

at your powershell command prompt and enjoy.

Here is a list of the core properties:

Word Documents additionally have following properties:

I also run into some implementation, which uses Windows Search to filter for properties.

For several more cmdlets visit the Powershell Community Extensions Project at Codeplex.

Right at the moment there's just a get-docprop cmdlet included in the setup, the set-docprop will follow in a few days, so come back again ;-)