File counting with Powershell commands

Question

How can I count all files in a specific folder (and all subfolders) with the Powershell command Get-ChildItem? With (Get-ChildItem -recurse

Answer 1

Filter for files before counting:

(Get-ChildItem <Folder> -recurse | where-object {-not ($_.PSIsContainer)}).Count

Answer 2

I would pipe the result to the Measure-Object cmdlet. Using (...).Count can yield nothing in case there are no objects that match your criteria.

 $files = Get-ChildItem <Folder> -Recurse | Where-Object {!$_.PSIsContainer} | Measure-Object
 $files.Count

In PowerShell v3 we can do the following to get files only:

 Get-ChildItem <Folder> -File -Recurse