Powershell folder size of folders without listing Subdirectories

Question

I have found several resources that use the following script to get folder sizes

$colItems = (Get-ChildItem $startFolder -recurse | Where-Object {$_.PSIsContaine         


        

Answer 1

This simple solution worked for me as well.

powershell -c "Get-ChildItem -Recurse 'directory_path' | Measure-Object -Property Length -Sum"