Use PowerShell to Explore Nested Directories and Files

re: Use PowerShell to Explore Nested Directories and Files

Ed Wilson — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 13:22:41 GMT

@K_Schulte certainly I could divide by 52 ... and that would work for my specific scenario, but might not help out someone else who did not have as structured a filesystem. In PowerShell 3.0 there is a -directory switch that will return only directories, and there is a -file switch that will return only files. In addition, there is a -attributes that allows you to specify specific file attributes, as well as a -hidden, -readonly and -system switches. There is no -link switch however.

re: Use PowerShell to Explore Nested Directories and Files

K_Schulte — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 07:21:21 GMT

correction:

I've been to fast ( and too furious :-) I missed to add the "Count" property in the end!

(Get-ChildItem -Path C:\data\ScriptingGuys -recurse | where {$_.psiscontainer -AND $_.name -match '^D'} | measure).count / 52

Klaus.

re: Use PowerShell to Explore Nested Directories and Files

K_Schulte — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 07:14:40 GMT

Hi Ed,

a nice article about the secrets of the "get-Childitem" CmdLet!

But .. if I may dare to ask the question ... why don't we just count the matching folders and divide them by the number of weeks per year? Like:

(Get-ChildItem -Path C:\data\ScriptingGuys -recurse | where {$_.psiscontainer -AND $_.name -match '^hsg'} | measure) / 52

This would optimize the runtime ... wouldn't it *ssss* :-)

And I'm still convinced that the introduction of -Directory ( -File, -Link, ... ) switch would help, if it were available for the "Get-ChildItem" CmdLet!

Klaus.