How can I use PowerShell's -filter parameter to exclude values/files?

Question

I\'m currently running a PowerShell (v3.0) script, one step of which is to retrieve all the HTML files in a directory. That works great:

$srcfiles = Get-ChildItem

Answer 1

-Filter is not the right way. Use the -exclude parameter instead:

$srcfiles = Get-ChildItem $srcPath -exclude *.htm*

-exclude accepts a string[] type as an input. In that way you can exclude more than one extension/file type as follows:

 $srcfiles = Get-ChildItem $srcPath -exclude *.htm*,*.css,*.doc*,*.xls*

..And so on.