exclude directories in more professional way.

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1

I am trying to exclude some directories when using get-childitem

I know this way will

Get-ChildItem c:\users |where {$.name -NotLike “*SUP” -and $.name -notlike “Cit*”}

Get-ChildItem c:\users |where {$_.name -Notmatch “SUP|Cit|pcg”}

I am trying to make it looks more nicer and easy to change in future

$e=@(‘_sup’,‘sa’,‘pcg’,'srv,‘citrix’,‘administrator’)

Get-ChildItem c:\users |where {$_.name -NotLike $e }

OR

$e=“_sup|sa|citrix”

Get-childitem c:\users \where {$_.name -notmatch $e

It doesn’t exclude any directory. can someone help?

2

The following work for me:

$exclusion = 'Sales|Corp'

Get-ChildItem C:\Scripts -Directory | where {$_.name -Notmatch $exclusion}

or

$exclusion = 'Sales','Corp'

Get-ChildItem C:\Scripts -Directory | where {$_.name -Notmatch ($exclusion -join '|')}

The directories are:

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Get-ChildItem C:\Scripts -Directory


    Directory: C:\Scripts


Mode                LastWriteTime         Length Name                                                                                                                                                                                                            
----                -------------         ------ ----                                                                                                                                                                                                            
d-----        11/6/2019  11:16 AM                Corp                                                                                                                                                                                                            
d-----        11/6/2019  11:16 AM                Legal                                                                                                                                                                                                           
d-----        12/6/2019   9:04 AM                Sales

Both methods filter with the result:

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> 
$exclusion = 'Sales','Corp'

Get-ChildItem C:\Scripts -Directory | where {$_.name -Notmatch ($exclusion -join '|')}


    Directory: C:\Scripts


Mode                LastWriteTime         Length Name                                                                                                                                                                                                            
----                -------------         ------ ----                                                                                                                                                                                                            
d-----        11/6/2019  11:16 AM                Legal
3

Wouldn’t it be fullname not name?

4 
Get-ChildItem \\path\test -Exclude FolderT,FileW

# Exclude folder and file in array
$list = @('FolderT','FileW')
Get-ChildItem \\path\test -Exclude $list