Windows PowerShell One-Liner: List all the subdirectories in the current directory

re: Windows PowerShell One-Liner: List all the subdirectories in the current directory

Scott — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:31:09 GMT

How do you get PW to delete the tmp directories stored under c:\user\userID\AppData\local\temp

where userID is the user's directory?

re: Windows PowerShell One-Liner: List all the subdirectories in the current directory

Jason — Fri, 23 May 2008 22:08:13 GMT

I agree with Eric. There should be some shortcuts or something. I'm having trouble getting a certain property from a directory after doing this... should be simpler. I know it can be done, but why does it have to be so complicated?

re: Windows PowerShell One-Liner: List all the subdirectories in the current directory

Eric — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:19:20 GMT

This is ~one~ of my biggest gripes against powershell:

get-childitem | where {$_.mode -match "d"}

versus

dir /AD

One of them is quick and efficient to type; the other tedious, wordy, aggravating.

If everyone has to alias everything just to work efficiently on a command line, then really: what benefit is the overly-lengthy Verb-Noun syntax coupled with long switches ("silentlycontinue"?!)?

As a system admin who can also program in a handful of languages, I feel Powershell lost sight of being a command line interface for SAs.

my $.5

b3ardman — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:17:23 GMT

This is my oneliner that gets items in the current directory that are older than the newest item. I use this to backup old IIS logs.

dir | where { !$_.PsIsContainer } | where { $_.Name -ne (dir | where { !$_.PSIsContainer } | sort LastWriteTime -descending | select -first 1 | %{$_.Name} ) } | %{ $_.FullName }

re: Windows PowerShell One-Liner: List all the subdirectories in the current directory

MSDNArchive — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 18:46:32 GMT

Thanks Keith!

I've now added these to my startup profile. I changed dirw to do autosizing to allow use of wide screens:

function dirw { get-childitem $args -ea silentlycontinue | sort @{e={$_.PSIsContainer}; asc=$false},@{e={$_.Name}; asc=$true} | format-wide -auto}

(I love community efforts - they make me smarter faster!)

Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]
Windows PowerShell Architect

re: Windows PowerShell One-Liner: List all the subdirectories in the current directory

Keith Hill MVP — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 07:56:57 GMT

I have a number of dir* functions that I create in my profile:

function dir { get-childitem $args -ea silentlycontinue | sort @{e={$_.PSIsContainer}; asc=$false},@{e={$_.Name}; asc=$true} }
function dirw { get-childitem $args -ea silentlycontinue | sort @{e={$_.PSIsContainer}; asc=$false},@{e={$_.Name}; asc=$true} | format-wide }
function dirs { get-childitem $args -ea silentlycontinue | sort Length }
function dirt { get-childitem $args -ea silentlycontinue | sort LastWriteTime }
function dird { get-childitem $args -ea silentlycontinue | where { $_.PSIsContainer } }