{"id":3378,"date":"2013-06-19T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/06\/19\/powertip-use-a-powershell-3-0-switch-to-find-only-directories\/"},"modified":"2013-06-19T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-use-a-powershell-3-0-switch-to-find-only-directories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-a-powershell-3-0-switch-to-find-only-directories\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use a PowerShell 3.0 Switch to Find Only Directories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong style=\"font-size: 12px\">Summary<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px\">: Use a switch in Windows PowerShell 3.0 to easily find only directories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell 3.0 to find a list of only directories from my current location?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size: 12px\">Use the&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 12px\">&ndash;Directory<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px\">&nbsp;switch with the&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 12px\">Get-ChildItem<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px\">&nbsp;cmdlet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px\">Get-ChildItem -Directory<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\"><strong>Note&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;The&nbsp;<strong>&ndash;Directory<\/strong>&nbsp;switch was added to Windows PowerShell 3.0.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use a switch in Windows PowerShell 3.0 to easily find only directories. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell 3.0 to find a list of only directories from my current location? &nbsp;&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;&ndash;Directory&nbsp;switch with the&nbsp;Get-ChildItem&nbsp;cmdlet. Get-ChildItem -Directory Note&nbsp;&nbsp;The&nbsp;&ndash;Directory&nbsp;switch was added to Windows PowerShell 3.0.<\/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":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-3378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use a switch in Windows PowerShell 3.0 to easily find only directories. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell 3.0 to find a list of only directories from my current location? &nbsp;&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;&ndash;Directory&nbsp;switch with the&nbsp;Get-ChildItem&nbsp;cmdlet. Get-ChildItem -Directory Note&nbsp;&nbsp;The&nbsp;&ndash;Directory&nbsp;switch was added to Windows PowerShell 3.0.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378","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=3378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378\/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=3378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}