Can I get the selected files from an explorer window using powershell?

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In Applescript it's pretty easy to get the selected files in a Finder window.

tell application "Finder"
  set finderSelList to selection as alias list
end tell

Is there an equivalent in Powershell?

What I want to be able to do is get an arbitrary selection of files in an explorer window as an array of file objects. So

get-explorer-selection|%{do-something-to $_}

where get-explorer-selection returns an array of the selected files in the frontmost explorer window

asked Nov 29, 2018 at 5:41

stib

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Hmm, maybe I have to make the question clearer.
– stib
Nov 29, 2018 at 5:46
I see there's docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/… and as per blogs.technet.microsoft.com/heyscriptingguy/2009/09/01/… and that logic within the function that looks like this answer: stackoverflow.com/questions/32014711/…, you may be able to get those back in an array with some variation of logic like that using .Net within PowerShell basically right.
– Vomit IT - Chunky Mess Style
Nov 29, 2018 at 6:16
From a cursory glance, they all seem to be using the open file dialog, rather than an existing explorer window
– stib
Nov 29, 2018 at 6:26
Neither Windows or PowerShell provides any way of doing this, that I am aware of, outside of using what Pimp Juice IT pointed to.
– postanote
Nov 29, 2018 at 8:55

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