Get-FolderItem version to get all folders

Question

I have found a cmdlet that returns all files regardless of path size. I was wondering if there was an equivalent command that got all the folders regardless of path size?

Get-FolderItem combines robocopy and powershell to return all files even those with the path greater than 260.

Is there anyway to get all the folders in the fileshare

Answer 1

Get-FolderItem uses the robocopy switch /NDL to exclude directories from the log output, which it uses to grab the file info. It also avoids empty folders by using the /S switch to recurse rather than /E

Simply change the $params variable from:

$params.AddRange(@("/L","/S","/NJH","/BYTES","/FP","/NC","/NDL","/TS","/XJ","/R:0","/W:0"))

to

$params.AddRange(@("/L","/E","/NJH","/BYTES","/FP","/NC","/NFL","/TS","/XJ","/R:0","/W:0"))

Now, Robocopy will list directories, rather than files. Since the output for directories is a little different from files, you'll have to change the parsing logic a bit as well.

Change

If ($_.Trim() -match "^(?<Size>\d+)\s(?<Date>\S+\s\S+)\s+(?<FullName>.*)") {
    $object = New-Object PSObject -Property @{
        ParentFolder = $matches.fullname -replace '(.*\\).*','$1'
        FullName = $matches.FullName
        Name = $matches.fullname -replace '.*\\(.*)','$1'
        Length = [int64]$matches.Size
        LastWriteTime = [datetime]$matches.Date
        Extension = $matches.fullname -replace '.*\.(.*)','$1'
        FullPathLength = [int] $matches.FullName.Length
    }
    $object.pstypenames.insert(0,'System.IO.RobocopyDirectoryInfo')
    Write-Output $object
}

to

If ($_.Trim() -match "^(?<Children>\d+)\s+(?<FullName>.*)") {
    $object = New-Object PSObject -Property @{
        ParentFolder = $matches.fullname -replace '(.*\\).*','$1'
        FullName = $matches.FullName
        Name = $matches.fullname -replace '.*\\(.*)','$1'
    }
    $object.pstypenames.insert(0,'System.IO.RobocopyDirectoryInfo')
    Write-Output $object
}

And that should do it