Hi all,
I have what I consider a very strange problem with Get-ChildItem
My system:
OS: Widows 10 Pro
PSVersion: 5.1.15063.726
PSEdition: Desktop
My problem is that I want to find two specific directories in a specific directory, but not any subdirectories that may have the same name(s).
Using "Documents" and "Downloads" as examples:
Works: Get-ChildItem -path "C:\Users\LarsPetersson" -Directory Documents
Works: Get-ChildItem -path "C:\Users\LarsPetersson" -Directory Downloads
Doesn't Work: Get-ChildItem -path "C:\Users\LarsPetersson" -Directory Downloads,Documents
This I get, but what I don't get is:
Works: Get-ChildItem -path "C:\Users\LarsPetersson" -Directory -Include *
Doesn't Work: Get-ChildItem -path "C:\Users\LarsPetersson" -Directory -Include Documents
Doesn't Work: Get-ChildItem -path "C:\Users\LarsPetersson" -Directory -Include *Documents*
Doesn't Work: Get-ChildItem -path "C:\Users\LarsPetersson\*" -Directory -Include *Documents*
Doesn't Work: Get-ChildItem -path "C:\Users\LarsPetersson" -File -Include github_RSA
Works: Get-ChildItem -path "C:\Users\LarsPetersson\*" -File -Include github_RSA
Or am I completely wrong and this shouldn't work, despite the Get-Help file seeming to indicate that it should?
For now, I am using
Get-ChildItem -path "C:\Users\LarsPetersson\*" -Directory | where {($_.psiscontainer -eq $true) -AND (($_.Name -eq "Documents") -OR ($_.Name -EQ "Downloads"))} | FT Fullname
but this seems like a lot of typing that shouldn't be necessary.
and yes, I know that "($_.psiscontainer -eq $true)" is superfluous here, but I don't feel I can trust Get-ChildItem to only show me directories like it is supposed to.
