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I have a friend with a video on my computer. The path is 

C:\Users\Me\Videos\Tonys Videos\Dinosaur [1080p]\

In the Dinosaur movie folder is an "asset" folder, which contains a few .gif,.jpg and .png files. I wanted to learn a little bit about Powershell so I changed the directory with...

cd "C:\Users\Me\Videos\Tonys Videos\Dinosaur ``[1080p``]\assets"

The (`) was needed for the special bracket characters & the quotations for the space in the folder named "Tonys Videos". I can type in Get-ChildItem & the entire list will populate just fine, but I run into errors when I attempt to use the exclude flag (whether a single or multiple strings are "excluded" it still shows no output.

I ran another test, where I copied the "assets" folder to "Tonys Videos" (so the grave-accent would be omitted and everything ran just fine. I'm using PS v2.0 but that really shouldn't change much. My question is why didn't the "Get-ChildItem -exclude" work with the grave accents?

In response to the comment, this is my attempt with Get-ChildItem

Get-ChildItem "C:\Users\Me\Videos\Tonys Videos\Dinosaur ``[1080p``]\assets" -Exclude *.jpg,*png

I have tested this same format (as stated above) in the "Tonys Videos" folder and it worked just fine. Thanks for your continued assistance.

JoeDaHobo
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When there are special keys in the path use Get-ChildItem -LiteralPath "YourPath". With -LiteralPath you don't need the (`).
What do you write by the exclude?

For me this one works:

Get-ChildItem -Path "C:\temp\``[TEST``]\*.*" -Exclude *.jpg,*.png


You need the \*.* that you can exclude something. With Get-ChildItem -LiteralPath you can't use \*.*.

Can you use this?

Get-ChildItem -Path "C:\temp\``[TEST``]" | Where-Object -FilterScript {$_.Name -notlike "*.jpg" -and $_.Name -notlike "*.png"}


Maybe an other user knows why the exclude don't work.

Patrick
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  • For exclude I used -exclude *.png,*.jpg The literal path for some reason didn't take into account the -exclude flag (or -Exclude, tried both if it makes a difference) – JoeDaHobo Aug 23 '14 at 20:37
  • I'll also add that `GCI -Path` option with `*.*` at the end does not include folders, that will only list files. – TheMadTechnician Aug 25 '14 at 20:42
  • Pipe-lining the objects into a FilterScript did the trick. Thanks everyone – JoeDaHobo Aug 26 '14 at 11:23
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You can also include the string in single quotes which won't attempt to expand or interpret the strings contents. Note that variables won't expand either.

Matt
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