Jeff

On Jun 21, 9:23 am, spdr <p...@iinet.net.au> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> If I run the command below it will list all directories that have the
> word "Data" in the path, if I run it locally it's real quick and can
> find all the paths within seconds, but I need to run it on all our
> remote file servers and it is dog slow and was wondering if anyone
> knew anyway to optimise it?
>
> get-childitem \\server\e$ "Data" -recurse | Where-Object {$_.mode -
> match "d" } | Select-Object fullname
>
> I am assuming it is slow because the first path of the command
> searches the entire file system to find all folders AND files that
> match "Data", then it is piped into the second part where it is then
> restricted down to folders and then on the second part when it is then
> restricted down to only output the path. It tries to bring across way
> too much information across the WAN to have it filtered down on my
> machine.
>
> I need to extract about 10 - 15 paths on 102 remote files servers, if
> it takes hours to do each server it's not worth doing a script and
> I'll just have to find them manually. The path I am looking for is
> never going be deep down in the file structure, it should be three
> levels down from root, and I don't want files, just the folder path,
> like ...
>
> \\server\x$\BusinessUnitX\Folder1\Data
> \\server\x$\BusinessUnitY\Folder1\Data
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
> Thanks

One quick idea.

The PSIsContainer NoteProperty will certainly be faster than the -
match operator:

get-childitem \\server\e$ "Data" -recurse | Where-Object
{$_.PSIsContainer} | Select-Object fullname

Other than that, I don't know.

Jeff