How do I get only directories using Get-ChildItem?

Question

I\'m using PowerShell 2.0 and I want to pipe out all the subdirectories of a certain path. The following command outputs all files and directories, but I can\'t figure out h

Answer 1

Use:

dir -Directory -Recurse | Select FullName

This will give you an output of the root structure with the folder name for directories only.

Answer 2

Use:

Get-ChildItem \\myserver\myshare\myshare\ -Directory | Select-Object -Property name |  convertto-csv -NoTypeInformation  | Out-File c:\temp\mydirectorylist.csv

Which does the following

• Get a list of directories in the target location: Get-ChildItem \\myserver\myshare\myshare\ -Directory
• Extract only the name of the directories: Select-Object -Property name
• Convert the output to CSV format: convertto-csv -NoTypeInformation
• Save the result to a file: Out-File c:\temp\mydirectorylist.csv

Answer 3

Use this one:

Get-ChildItem -Path \\server\share\folder\ -Recurse -Force | where {$_.Attributes -like '*Directory*'} | Export-Csv -Path C:\Temp\Export.csv -Encoding "Unicode" -Delimiter ";"

Answer 4

To answer the original question specifically (using IO.FileAttributes):

Get-ChildItem c:\mypath -Recurse | Where-Object {$_.Attributes -and [IO.FileAttributes]::Directory}

I do prefer Marek's solution though (Where-Object { $_ -is [System.IO.DirectoryInfo] }).

Answer 5

Use:

dir -r | where { $_ -is [System.IO.DirectoryInfo] }

Answer 6

A bit more readable and simple approach could be achieved with the script below:

$Directory = "./"
Get-ChildItem $Directory -Recurse | % {
    if ($_.Attributes -eq "Directory") {
        Write-Host $_.FullName
    }
}

Hope this helps!