get-childitem and exclude complete folder

Hi,

I try to report on some folders and must exclude some of them, but

Get-ChildItem -path "C:\" -recurse -exclude "DFSReports"

does not exclude the folder C:\DFSReports.

Is there a workaround or am i missing something,

Thanks a lot.

On Nov 16, 12:06 am, Thomas Kofler
<ThomasKof...@xxxxxx> wrote: Get-Help Get-ChildItem -Parameter Exclude

Returns the following (Note the "Doesn't work properly" part)

-exclude <string[]>
Omits the specified items. The value of this parameter qualifies
the Path parameter. Enter a path element or patter
n, such as "*.txt". Wildcards are permitted.

This parameter does not work properly in this cmdlet.

Required? false
Position? named
Default value
Accept pipeline input? false
Accept wildcard characters? true

You could try this.

Get-Childitem -Path "C:" | Where {$_.PSisContainer -eq $false}
Get-Childitem -Path "C:" | Where {$_.PSisContainer -eq $true} | Where
{$_.name -ne "DFSReports"} | ForEach {Get-Childitem -Path $_ -Recurse}

This gets you all of the items in all of the subdirectories under C:\
except "DFSReports".

Hope that helps a bit.

Thomas Kofler wrote: I have v2 CTP and see this in the get-childitem help:

-exclude <string[]>
Omits the specified items. The value of this parameter
qualifies the Path parameter. Enter a path element or pa
ttern, such as "*.txt". Wildcards are permitted.

**This parameter does not work properly in this cmdlet.**

What were you looking to do? You could possibly pipe this to a
where-object or foreach-object cmdlet to drop the directories you don't
want.

Maco



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Thomas,
I found that the problem is when is used C:\ with path, if you
try to use another path C:\Test this work. Sorry, I know that I gave a
solution, but another person gave a solution.

Regards


"Thomas Kofler" wrote:

Maybe this can help, its example #3 from the get-childitem help file (type:
(get-help get-childitem).examples.example[2])

-------------------------- EXAMPLE 3 --------------------------

C:\PS>get-childitem c:\windows\logs\* -include *.txt -exclude A*


This command lists the .txt files in the Logs subdirectory, except for those
whose names start with the letter A. It uses the wildcard
character (*) to indicate the contents of the Logs subdirectory, not the
directory container. Because the command does not include the
Recurse parameter, Get-Childitem does not include the content of directory
automatically; you need to specify it.


Try:

Get-ChildItem -path C:\* -exclude DFSReports -recurse



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