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#PROCESS MONITOR FILTER FILE CREATION HOW TO#
#PROCESS MONITOR FILTER FILE CREATION INSTALL#

Piping the filesystem watchers also works with the other commands. Get-FileSystemWatcher | Remove-FileSystemWatcher Remove-FileSystemWatcher -SourceIdentifier "MyEvent" Finally, if you want get rid of filesystem watchers the command Remove-FileSystemWatcher disposes a filesystem watcher specified by the source identifier or by piping in a collection of watchers: # to dispose one watcher This command writes a state object to the pipe containing the configuration of all filesystem watchers. NotifyFilter : FileName, DirectoryName, LastWrite To keep track of all the filesystem watchers created in the current PowerShell process, you can use the command Get-FileSystemWatcher: PS> Get-FileSystemWatcher Resume-FileSystemWatcher -SourceIdentifier "MyEvent" To suspend the notification temporarily and to resume it later the following two commands can be used: Suspend-FileSystemWatcher -SourceIdentifier "MyEvent" "TimeGenerated": "T21:39:50.4483088+01:00",Įvents raised before a handler is registered remain in the queue until you consume them using Get-Event/ Remove-Event. To produce a new event, just write some characters to a file in the watched directory: PS> "XYZ" > C:\Tempfilesxyz PowerShell allows you to register more than one handler for a single source identifier but the FSWatcherEngineEvent module doesn’t allow you to create more than one watcher using the same source identifier. Id Name PSJobTypeName State HasMoreData Location Commandġ MyEvent NotStarted False |ConvertTo-Json|Wr…

The following example just writes the whole event converted to JSON to the console: PS> Register-EngineEvent -SourceIdentifier "MyEvent" -Action You can consume the event by registering an event handler for the same source identifier. The watcher now sends notifications to PowerShell’s engine event queue using the source identifier “MyEvent”. New-FileSystemWatcher -SourceIdentifier "MyEvent" -Path C:\Tempfiles

Please refer to the Microsoft’s reference documentation of the FileSystemWatcher class for the details.

IncludeSubdirectory: extends the area of observation to the subdirectories of the specified path.

Filter: a wildcard to define a subset of files to watch.

NotifyFilter: what kind of change triggers an event (by default: LastWrite, FileName, DirectoryName).

The command allows to specify the same parameters (with the same names) as if you are using the C# class directly. As an example, you can watch for changes in directory C:\Tempfiles.

#PROCESS MONITOR FILTER FILE CREATION INSTALL#

It hides the C#-API behind a PowerShell command with argument completion, it keeps track of the created watchers, and provides commands to pause notifications and to clean up the watchers if they are no longer needed.Īfter you install and import the module, you can create a new filesystem watcher. I made the FSWatcherEngineEvent PowerShell module to make these file system watchers easier to use.

#PROCESS MONITOR FILTER FILE CREATION HOW TO#

There are already many examples on the internet showing how to create and configure the watcher in PowerShell but this isn’t something I can easily recall from memory at the moment I need it. A file system watcher listens to change notifications generated by the operating system and invokes a given function if the file change matches several filter criteria like the directory, the file name or the type of the change.

NET Framework class named FileSystemWatcher which suits this job perfectly. Some time ago I wanted to sync files from a source directory to a destination directory immediately after they had changed in the source directory.