How do I get only directories using Get-ChildItem

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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 how to filter out the files   Get-ChildItem c  mypath -Recurse   I ve tried using    Attributes to get the attributes but then I don t know how to construct a literal instance of System IO FileAttributes to compare it to  In cmd exe it would be   dir  b  ad  s

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Use   dir -r   where      -is  System IO DirectoryInfo

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The accepted answer mentions  Get-ChildItem -Recurse         PSIsContainer     Select-Object FullName   to get a  raw string   But in fact objects of type Selected System IO DirectoryInfo will be returned  For raw strings the following can be used   Get-ChildItem -Recurse         PSIsContainer            FullName     The difference matters if the value is concatenated to a string    with Select-Object suprisingly foo   FullName bar  with the ForEach-operator the expected  foo bar

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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

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Less text is required with this approach   ls -r         mode -match  d

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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

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In PowerShell 3 0  it is simpler   Get-ChildItem -Directory  List only directories Get-ChildItem -File  List only files

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Use   dir -Directory -Recurse   Select FullName   This will give you an output of the root structure with the folder name for directories only

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Use  Get-ChildItem -dir  lists only directories Get-ChildItem -file  lists only files   If you prefer aliases  use  ls -dir  lists only directories ls -file  lists only files   or  dir -dir  lists only directories dir -file  lists only files   To recurse subdirectories as well  add -r option   ls -dir -r  lists only directories recursively ls -file -r  lists only files recursively    Tested on PowerShell 4 0  PowerShell 5 0  Windows 10   PowerShell Core 6 0  Windows 10  Mac  and Linux   and PowerShell 7 0  Windows 10  Mac  and Linux    Note  On PowerShell Core  symlinks are not followed when you specify the -r switch  To follow symlinks  specify the -FollowSymlink switch with -r   Note 2  PowerShell is now cross-platform  since version 6 0  The cross-platform version was originally called PowerShell Core  but the the word  Core  has been dropped since PowerShell 7 0    Get-ChildItem documentation  https   docs microsoft com en-us powershell module microsoft powershell management get-childitem

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From PowerShell v2 and newer  k represents the folder you are beginning your search at    Get-ChildItem  Path -attributes D -Recurse   If you just want folder names only  and nothing else  use this   Get-ChildItem  Path -Name -attributes D -Recurse   If you are looking for a specific folder  you could use the following  In this case  I am looking for a folder called myFolder   Get-ChildItem  Path -attributes D -Recurse -include  myFolder

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You ll want to use Get-ChildItem to recursively get all folders and files first   And then pipe that output into a Where-Object clause which only take the files       one of several ways to identify a file is using GetType   which   will return  FileInfo  or  DirectoryInfo   files   Get-ChildItem E   -Recurse   Where-Object     GetType   Name -eq  FileInfo      foreach   file in  files      echo  file FullName

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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

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My solution is based on the TechNet article Fun Things You Can Do With the Get-ChildItem Cmdlet   Get-ChildItem C  foo   Where-Object     mode -match  d     I used it in my script  and it works well

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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

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A cleaner approach   Get-ChildItem   lt name of directory gt     where     Attributes -match Directory     I wonder if PowerShell 3 0 has a switch that only returns directories  it seems like a logical thing to add

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For PowerShell versions less than 3 0  The FileInfo object returned by Get-ChildItem has a  quot base quot  property  PSIsContainer  You want to select only those items  Get-ChildItem -Recurse         PSIsContainer    If you want the raw string names of the directories  you can do Get-ChildItem -Recurse         PSIsContainer     Select-Object FullName  For PowerShell 3 0 and greater  Get-ChildItem -Directory  You can also use the aliases dir  ls  and gci

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