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

The solution posted by @Linga: "Get-ChildItem -Recurse 'directory_path' | Measure-Object -Property Length -Sum" is nice and short. However, it only computes the size of 'directory_path', without sub-directories.
Here is a simple solution for listing all sub-directory sizes. With a little pretty-printing added.
(Note: use the -File option to avoid errors for empty sub-directories)

foreach ($d in gci -Directory -Force) {
  '{0:N0}' -f ((gci $d -File -Recurse -Force | measure length -sum).sum) + "`t`t$d" 
}