Unable to exclude directory using Get-ChildItem -Exclude parameter in Powershell

Question

I am using Powershell v 2.0. and copying files and directories from one location to another. I am using a string[] to filter out file types and also need to filter out a dir

Answer 1

Get-ChildItem -Path $SourcePath -File -Recurse | 
Where-Object { !($_.FullName).StartsWith($DestinationPath) } 

Answer 2

The -Exclude parameter is pretty broken. I would recommend you to filter directories that you don't want using Where-Object (?{}). For instance:

$exclude = @('*.cs', '*.csproj', '*.pdb')
$items = Get-ChildItem $parentPath -Recurse -Exclude $exclude | ?{ $_.fullname -notmatch "\\obj\\?" }

P.S.: Word of warning – don't even think about using -Exclude on Copy-Item itself.

Answer 3

I use this to list files under a root but not include the directories

$files = gci 'C:\' -Recurse  | Where-Object{!($_.PSIsContainer)}