I need help with Power Shell

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I need help with Power Shell. I am trying to extract the files form the “C:\Users\Public\Documents\R-Technics\SongShow Plus\Songs” directory that have “paul r” as part of the file name. and put them in the directory “Paulr” in a text file called “Paulr.txt”. I am putting the following command into PS: get-childItem -include *paul r* > Paulr\Paulr.txt
I have navigated to C:\Users\Public\Documents\R-Technics\SongShow Plus\Songs so the power shell command line looks like this:
PS C:\Users\Public\Documents\R-Technics\SongShow Plus\Songs> get-childItem -include *paul r* > Paulr\Paulr.txt
The file Paulr.txt is created in folder Paulr but it is empty.
can anyone help me?

I am running window 10 ver. 2004

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You have a space in your file spec so you need to quote it.
Try it without the redirect first, to make sure it’s working.
Use “-Filter” rather than “-Include”, it’s more efficient.
If you only want the names, use “-Name”.

e.g. get-childItem -name -filter "*paul r*"

cheers, Paul

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Thanks Paul, I made the changes that you suggested and that worked.  I really appreciate your help. This can be closed
Ivan

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