How to use wildcards with directories in PowerShell's Get-ChildItem -Exclude cmdlet

I haven't seen the exclude parameter working with directories either.

You could try piping into Where-Object. That is,

Get-ChildItem -Recurse *.pdb | Where-Object {$_.FullName -notMatch "folder2"}

powershell directory get-childitem

 gci "C:\Root" -Recurse | Where-Object {$_.FullName -notlike "*Folder2\*.pdb*"} | Export-CSV "C:\Root\Export.csv" -NoType

Tried, tested & one liner :-). This works as I have copied your folder & file structure to replicate. Sorry about it being a few years late, however.

Feel free to tweak the code to your needs, obviously.

powershell directory get-childitem

OhadH's answer is almost there.

You can use

Get-ChildItem -Recurse | Where-Object {$_.FullName -notmatch "folder2" -or $_.Name -notlike "*.pdb" }

Get-ChildItem -Recurse | ? {$_.FullName -notlike "*folder2*" -or $_.Name -notlike "*.pdb" }

It depends on where your folder2 is located. But I think you got the idea.

I hate to say it, but PowerShell is not any convenient as Bash or other shells.

CodeHunter