As mentioned in the comment, you found an actual error that will hopefully soon being fixed. However, there is a very acceptable workaround that you can apply with minimal effort while continuing to use Get-ChildItem without the need to exclude your folder. The Unicode version of Get-ChildItem does not suffer from this problem. (Tested on … Read more
Try wrapping in @(..). It creates always an array: $Files = @(Get-ChildItem $BackupPath_Root -include *.bak -recurse | where {$_.CreationTime -le $DelDate_Backup }) if ($Files.length -eq 0) { write-host ” no files to delete.” } else { .. }
In your particular case what you want is Tree /f. You have a comment asking how to strip out the part at the front talking about the volume, serial number, and drive letter. That is possible filtering the output before you send it to file. $Path = “C:\temp” Tree $Path /F | Select-Object -Skip 2 … Read more
Use Where-Object and test the $_.CreationTime: Get-ChildItem ‘PATH’ -recurse -include @(“*.tif*”,”*.jp2″,”*.pdf”) | Where-Object { $_.CreationTime -ge “03/01/2013” -and $_.CreationTime -le “03/31/2013” }