{"id":1065,"date":"2014-07-03T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/07\/03\/powertip-looking-for-folders-and-files-in-powershell\/"},"modified":"2014-07-03T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-looking-for-folders-and-files-in-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-looking-for-folders-and-files-in-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Looking for Folders and Files in PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/b>: Learn about looking for folders and files in Windows PowerShell.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Hey, Why does this command show me folders instead of files?<\/p>\n

Dir | Where PSIsContainer -eq False<\/p>\n

\"Hey, In Windows PowerShell, use the automatic variables $True<\/b> and $False<\/b> to refer to Boolean values
          instead of the string <\/span>True<\/b> and <\/span>False<\/b>. To perform the comparison, Windows PowerShell converts
<\/span>          the object on the right into the same type as on the left, so the string False<\/strong> is evaluated as a Boolean True<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this case, you are converting a string into a Boolean value, so if the string has characters in it, it will
become a True<\/strong>. Only an empty string becomes a False<\/strong>. This is why your sample code gives you folders
instead of files. Try it like this and you will be a lot happier with the results:<\/p>\n

Dir | Where PSIsContainer -EQ $False<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summary: Learn about looking for folders and files in Windows PowerShell.  Why does this command show me folders instead of files? Dir | Where PSIsContainer -eq False  In Windows PowerShell, use the automatic variables $True and $False to refer to Boolean values          instead of the string True and False. To perform the comparison, Windows PowerShell converts      […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[317,56,356,3,45],"class_list":["post-1065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-gary-siepser","tag-guest-blogger","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

Summary: Learn about looking for folders and files in Windows PowerShell.  Why does this command show me folders instead of files? Dir | Where PSIsContainer -eq False  In Windows PowerShell, use the automatic variables $True and $False to refer to Boolean values          instead of the string True and False. To perform the comparison, Windows PowerShell converts      […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}