Super User Asked by Steve B on August 14, 2020
I’m trying to get child items of a folder recursively. However the folder contains noise files and folder (actually, this is a Visual Studio project folder).
Here what I have:
$root = Get-Item C:ProjectsMyProject
$allItems = Get-ChildItem $root -Recurse -exclude "**pkgobj*"
However, $allItems
still contains files and folder matching the paths.
What I did wrong?
To be more precise, I want to get both folders and files, but not the specified folder, and any of its descendant.
I also tried:
foreach($item in $allItems){
if($item.FullName -notmatch "pkgobj") {
Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green $item.FullName.Replace($root,'')
}
}
But no more success
Took me a moment to understand the issue. Its a tricky one.
-exclude
only applies to basenames of items (i.e. myfile.txt
), not the fullname
(i.e. C:pkgobjmyfile.txt
) which you want. So you can't use exclude here.
But there is a workaround using Fullname
and -notlike
$root = "C:ProjectsMyProject"
$allitems = Get-ChildItem $root -Recurse | Where {$_.FullName -notlike "*pkgobj*"}
Correct answer by nixda on August 14, 2020
You want to avoid where statements when you can for performance reasons. To simplify a previous answer.
Get-childitem -path c:windows -exclude 'temp' | get-childitem -recurse
Answered by user2291729 on August 14, 2020
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