Hi.
I'm trying to get a listing of all files in a folder (and every sub-folder) grouped by directory. This is what I've got so far and which should work from my understanding:
Get-Childitem $Path -Recurse | Where {!$_.PsIsContainer} | Format-Table Name -GroupBy Directory
I'd expect that this outputs one table for each directory. But instead it does output one table for each file! I don't understand why this is happening, but I'm also new to PowerShell.
So here is an example of the output I'm getting:
Directory: C:\Users\Me\Desktop\Test
Name
----
New Text Document (2).txt
Directory: C:\Users\Me\Desktop\Test
Name
----
New Text Document.txt
It outputs two tables despite it's the same folder. I especially don't understand it because the
documentation says the following:
"You can also use the GroupBy parameter of the formatting cmdlets (such as Format-Table [m2] and Format-List [m2])
to group objects. Unlike Group-Object, which creates a single table with a row for each property value, the GroupBy parameters create a table for each property value with a row for each item that has the property value."
In case this is a bug in Format-Table could someone help me with a workaround?
I'd be very happy if someone could help me with this.
Thanks in advance,
Peter
