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have Powershell get-childitem return files only

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ANSWER 1

Score 163


In Powershell 3.0, it is simpler,

gci -Directory #List only directories
gci -File #List only files

This is even shorter,

gci -ad # alias for -Directory
gci -af # alias for -File


ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 103


Try this:

gci . *.* -rec | where { ! $_.PSIsContainer }


ANSWER 3

Score 1


This is not working when anyone named the folder xxx.PDF:

get-childitem -Recurse -include *.pdf

Best then you can do:

Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Include *.pdf | where { ! $_.PSIsContainer }


ANSWER 4

Score 0


In PowerShell 7, one can use -File switch:

Get-ChildItem *.pdf -Recurse -File