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user664481
user664481

Reputation: 2301

How to skip certain folder in Get-ChildItem command

I want to search particular string on multiple files, here the command will do. This command will search all folders within AMT_Project. Now I want to skip folder Data Within AMT_Project folder. How can I do that ?

PS E:\User\AMT_Project> Get-ChildItem -recurse | Select-String -pattern "+@QWEAz" -SimpleMatch | group path | select name

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Upvotes: 1

Views: 654

Answers (1)

Martin Brandl
Martin Brandl

Reputation: 58931

You could invoke Get-ChildItem twice. The first time, you get all items from the E:\User\AMT_Project directory, then you exclude the Data folder using the Where-Object cmdlet and finally use the second Get-ChildItem cmdlet with the -Recurse switch to retrieve the files recursively:

Get-ChildItem 'E:\User\AMT_Project' | Where-Object Name -ne 'Data' | Get-ChildItem -Recurse

You could also retrieve all items recursively first and filter them:

Get-ChildItems 'E:\User\AMT_Project' -Recurse | Where-Object FullName -NotMatch 'E:\\User\\AMT_Project\\Data\\.*'

Upvotes: 1

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