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BcdoC
BcdoC

Reputation: 1

powershell - gci exclude directories and subdirectories where parent folder contains TECH?

having trouble excluding directories and all subdirectories under excluded parent. i run this but need to exclude directory and subdirectories that start with TECH or have it in path.

 c:\users\user1
         user2
         tech-xxx  (random numbers - need to exclude this and all subdirectories)
         tech-xxx  (random numbers - need to exclude this and all subdirectories)

These fail (along with many other variations i have tried):

$UserDirExtensions="*.cmd","*.bat"
gci C:\Users -Recurse -Include $UserDirExtensions | Where-Object {!($_.FullName -icontains 'tech*') 

$Folders = (gci C:\Users -Directory | Select-Object -Property name | Where {$_.Name -notlike 'tech*' })
foreach ($i in $Folders) {
    gci C:\Users\$i -Recurse -Include $UserDirExtensions
    }

thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 449

Answers (1)

js2010
js2010

Reputation: 27516

name isn't fullname. -contains doesn't do what you think, it matches whole words in an array basically, and doesn't use wildcards.

dir -r | where fullname -notlike *tech*

There's a couple ways to focus on the parent, but this wouldn't exclude a tech folder itself:

dir -r | where psparentpath -notlike *tech*
dir -r | where directory -notlike *tech*
dir -r | where directoryname -notlike *tech*

Upvotes: 3

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