If you want to find all files in a particular folder with “hello” in the name, you could use the search function built into Windows Explorer, but if you want to save the list for later, or to send via email, use PowerShell instead. This cmdlet will give you every file (that you have access to list) on the C:\ drive with “hello” in the name and output the results to a csv file called C:\results.csv:

You could output the results directly to the screen, but PowerShell will truncate the directory and file names in a way that probably won’t be very useful.

If you don’t have access to a folder, you’ll get a big, ugly, red access-denied error. To suppress that error, add “-ErrorAction SilentlyContinue” to the Get-ChildItem cmdlet. You can abbreviate that as “-EA 0”, like this: