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Get-ChildItem is a powershell cmdlet that gets the items and child items in one or more specified locations.

Get-ChildItem is a powershell cmdlet that gets the items and child items in one or more specified locations. If the item is a container, it gets the items inside the container, known as child items. You can use the Recurse parameter to get items in all child containers.

A location can be a file system location, such as a directory, or a location exposed by a different Windows PowerShell provider, such as a registry hive or a certificate store.

Output

  • System.Object
    The type of object that Get-ChildItem returns is determined by the objects in the provider drive path.

  • System.String
    If you use the Name parameter, Get-ChildItem returns the object names as strings.

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Exclude SubFolder in Get-ChildItem PowerShell Statement

I've been doing my best to get more familiar with PowerShell as a way to automate many of our regular tasks in an effort to eliminate human error. I support a web based application, and my current goal is to create a script to migrate the…
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Get-ChildItem: Show only folders that do not include a specific file

First post on the platform ;-) Scenario: I have a root folder that contains subfolders with setup related files. Some subfolders contain more subfolders with more files, subsubfolders. Each of the subfolders underneath the root folder, or their…
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Determine recursively both COUNT and SUM of all extensions in a folder

I would like to be able to select a remote folder and scan it recursively for all file extensions. For each extension discovered, I would need a total count and well as the sum for individual file types. I've found a script here that works for a…
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powershell extend an object

How can I add a column to an object in PowerShell? For example, the Get-Childitem returns an object, with Mode, LastWriteTime, Length Name, etc.... And I want to extend this object with an extra column, that is computed from LastWriteTime. This is…
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Rename-Item : Source and destination path must be different error in Powershell

I am using Powershell and trying to return the child item of a directory, which happens to be a subdirectory, and then use the Rename-Item cmdlet to rename the subdirectory name to something else. I feel like the following code should…
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Powershell returns different information using remote connection

On my target computer in PowerShell I run command $FolderSize =(Get-ChildItem "C:\Users\JDoe" -force -Recurse -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Measure-Object length -sum).sum and I get a value of 0.76 gb, which accurately corresponds to the…
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Use Powershell to list the Fully Pathed Filenames on Individual Separate Lines?

If I execute: Get-ChildItem *.ext -recurse the output consists of a series of Directory sections followed by one or more columns of info for each matching file separated by said directory sections. Is there something like the Unix find command? In…
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How do I use Get-ChildItem to return files that don't have an extension?

I want to get a list of files that don't have a filename extension. Consider the content of my directory to be: folder file1 file2.mp4 My goal would be to get file1 only. Running Get-ChildItem -Exclude *.* -File returned nothing. Running…
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Powershell: Why does (gci c:\ddd).count on an Empty folder not return 0

Why does (gci c:\ddd).count on an Empty folder not return 0 but "nothing" I just get an Error "You cannot call a method on a null-valued expression." When my count-condition does not match. What do i need to "get" the zero to prevent the exception?
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Copy files where lastwritetime -ge 3/26/2010 9:00pm with Powershell

I need to copy files in one directory to another directory where the lastwritetime is greater than or equal to 3/26/2010 9:00pm. I'm using: Get-ChildItem C:\pstest\hlstore\folder1\data | where-object {$i.lastwritetime -ge “3/26/2010 9:00 PM”} |…
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In PowerShell, how do I get all registry keys with a certain property?

I want to get the installation directories of all Visual Studio versions installed on a machine (to copy a file into the Xml/Schemas directory) The best way is to read from the registry. At \HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Visual Studio, all the…
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PSRemoting performance overhead with get-childItem

This completes in 2.3 minutes on LOCALSERVER: A: measure-command {$x = invoke-command {gci -recurse "C:\"}} This completes in 38.4 minutes on LOCALSERVER: B: measure-command {$x = invoke-command -comp LOCALSERVER {gci -recurse "C:\"}} Why is B…
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How to limiting files searched by Get-ChildItem (or limiting depth of recursion)?

Background There is a directory that is automatically populated with MSI files throughout the day. I plan on leveraging Task Scheduler to run the script shown below every 15 minutes. The script will search the directory and copy any new MSIs that…
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PowerShell Scripting - Get-ChildItem

I've written a script that will be used for archiving log files from a server. I'm in pretty good shape with everything but the recursiveness or not of Get-ChildItem... The issue I seem to be having is that when Get-ChildItem is not recursive and…
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Powershell Get-ChildItem progress indication

Is it possible to display any sort of a progress indicator for the following (or similar) command? $dir = 'C:\$Recycle.Bin\S-1-5-18\' (Get-ChildItem -LiteralPath $dir -File -Recurse -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Measure-Object -Property…
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