Count items in a folder with PowerShell

Question

I m trying to write a very simple PowerShell script to give me the total number of items  both files and folders  in a given folder  c  MyFolder    Here s what I ve done   Write-Host   Get-ChildItem c  MyFolder   Count    The problem is  that if I have 1 or 0 items  the command does not work---it returns nothing   Any ideas

User · Answer

In powershell you can to use severals commands, for looking for this commands digit: Get-Alias;

So the cammands the can to use are:

write-host (ls MydirectoryName).Count

or

write-host (dir MydirectoryName).Count

or

write-host (Get-ChildrenItem MydirectoryName).Count

User · Answer

You should use Measure-Object to count things  In this case it would look like   Write-Host   Get-ChildItem c  MyFolder   Measure-Object   Count    or if that s too long   Write-Host   dir c  MyFolder   mo  Count    and in PowerShell 4 0 use the measure alias instead of mo  Write-Host  dir c  MyFolder   measure  Count

User · Answer

You can also use an alias  ls  Count

User · Answer

Only Files  Get-ChildItem D   -Recurse -File   Measure-Object        Count    Only Folders  Get-ChildItem D   -Recurse -Directory   Measure-Object        Count    Both  Get-ChildItem D   -Recurse   Measure-Object        Count

User · Answer

Recursively count files in directories in PowerShell 2 0  ls -rec         mode -match  d     select FullName     N  Count  E   ls    FullName   measure  Count

User · Answer

I finally found this link   https   blogs perficient com microsoft 2011 06 powershell-count-property-returns-nothing      Well  it turns out that this is a quirk caused precisely because there   was only one file in the directory  Some searching revealed that in   this case  PowerShell returns a scalar object instead of an array    This object doesn   t have a count property  so there isn   t anything to   retrieve    The solution -- force PowerShell to return an array with the   symbol   Write-Host    Get-ChildItem c  MyFolder   Count

User · Answer

If you need to speed up the process  for example counting 30k or more files  then I would go with something like this     filepath    c  MyFolder   filetype      txt   file count    System IO Directory   GetFiles   filepath     filetype   Count

User · Answer

To count the number of a specific filetype in a folder   The example is to count mp3 files on F  drive      Get-ChildItme F  -Filter   mp3 - Recurse   measure   Count   Tested in 6 2 3  but should work  4

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