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# based on https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Get-FileMetaData-3a7ddea7 | |
function Get-FileMetaData | |
{ | |
<# | |
.SYNOPSIS | |
Get-FileMetaData returns metadata information about a single file. | |
.DESCRIPTION | |
This function will return all metadata information about a specific file. It can be used to access the information stored in the filesystem. | |
.EXAMPLE | |
Get-FileMetaData -File "c:\temp\image.jpg" | |
Get information about an image file. | |
.EXAMPLE | |
Get-FileMetaData -File "c:\temp\image.jpg" | Select Dimensions | |
Show the dimensions of the image. | |
.EXAMPLE | |
Get-ChildItem -Path .\ -Filter *.exe | foreach {Get-FileMetaData -File $_.Name | Select Name,"File version"} | |
Show the file version of all binary files in the current folder. | |
#> | |
param([Parameter(Mandatory=$True)][string]$File = $(throw "Parameter -File is required.")) | |
if(!(Test-Path -Path $File)) | |
{ | |
throw "File does not exist: $File" | |
Exit 1 | |
} | |
$tmp = Get-ChildItem $File | |
$pathname = $tmp.DirectoryName | |
$filename = $tmp.Name | |
$hash = @{} | |
try{ | |
$shellobj = New-Object -ComObject Shell.Application | |
$folderobj = $shellobj.namespace($pathname) | |
$fileobj = $folderobj.parsename($filename) | |
for($i=0; $i -le 294; $i++) | |
{ | |
$name = $folderobj.getDetailsOf($null, $i); | |
if($name){ | |
$value = $folderobj.getDetailsOf($fileobj, $i); | |
if($value){ | |
$hash[$($name)] = $($value) | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
}finally{ | |
if($shellobj){ | |
[System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::ReleaseComObject([System.__ComObject]$shellobj) | out-null | |
} | |
} | |
return New-Object PSObject -Property $hash | |
} | |
Export-ModuleMember -Function Get-FileMetadata |
Have an update for your code.
replace line 52
#$hash[$($name)] = $($value)
with this
$hash[$($name)] = $($value) -replace "\u200E","" -replace "\u200F",""
This will get rid of the Unicode characters U+200E and U+200F.
For anyone interested.
I have the updated code on my site now.
PowerShell Get-FileMetaData - Remove Unicode Characters from Output
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The output gives the following.


LRM
When you do
Get-FileMetaData -File "W:\Photos\Canon 800D\2019\2019_12_08\IMG_1302_1.JPG" | Select "Date taken"
, etc...The output has Unicode characters
U+200E
andU+200F
Copy and Pasted into Notepad++ shows LRM and RLM
How can we eliminate this so the output is clean without these Unicode characters?