Trying to Exclude a Folder with -Recursive search in get-childitem

Question

I am new to PowerShell...

SL D:\SomeFolder get-childitem -exclude <D:\Somefolder\A> -recurse -Directory

I don't want d:\somefolder\A and its contents in the results, but for rest of the directories in "somefolder" I want recursive results.

I tried the command above, however, it is going inside the "\A" directory. It may be happening due to the -recurse switch, because if I don't use it...

Is there another way to achieve this?

"it may be happening due to recurse switch, coz if i dont use it... may be there is another way to achieve this" because if you don't use it ... what happens then? What should be on those dots? — wythagoras, Aug 25 '16 at 12:59

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:15

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This lists children folders of D:\SomeFolder without D:\Somefolder\A:

get-childitem 'D:\SomeFolder' -recurse -Directory ` 
  | ? { $_.FullName -notlike 'D:\Somefolder\A*' }

Trying to Exclude a Folder with -Recursive search in get-childitem

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