{"id":4364,"date":"2013-01-05T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/01\/05\/powertip-quickly-show-folders-and-subfolders-in-powershell-3-0\/"},"modified":"2013-01-05T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-05T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-quickly-show-folders-and-subfolders-in-powershell-3-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-quickly-show-folders-and-subfolders-in-powershell-3-0\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Quickly Show Folders and Subfolders in PowerShell 3.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary:<\/strong>&nbsp;Use Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0 to quickly show folders and subfolders.<\/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&nbsp;3.0 to quickly show folders and subfolders?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><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;Use the&nbsp;<strong>Get-ChildItem<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet with the&nbsp;<strong>&ndash;Directory<\/strong>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<strong>&ndash;Recurse<\/strong>&nbsp;switch. Select only parent and name. This command is shown here. Sort on the parent property.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">gci -Recurse -Directory | select parent, name | sort parent<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\"><strong>Note&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>gci<\/strong>&nbsp;is an alias for&nbsp;<strong>Get-ChildItem<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>select<\/strong>&nbsp;is an alias for&nbsp;<strong>Select-Object<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>sort<\/strong>&nbsp;is an alias for&nbsp;<strong>Sort-Object<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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:&nbsp;Use Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0 to quickly show folders and subfolders. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0 to quickly show folders and subfolders? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-ChildItem&nbsp;cmdlet with the&nbsp;&ndash;Directory&nbsp;and the&nbsp;&ndash;Recurse&nbsp;switch. Select only parent and name. This command is shown here. Sort on the parent property.&nbsp; gci -Recurse -Directory | select parent, name | sort parent Note&nbsp;&nbsp;gci&nbsp;is an alias for&nbsp;Get-ChildItem,&nbsp;select&nbsp;is [&hellip;]<\/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-4364","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:&nbsp;Use Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0 to quickly show folders and subfolders. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0 to quickly show folders and subfolders? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-ChildItem&nbsp;cmdlet with the&nbsp;&ndash;Directory&nbsp;and the&nbsp;&ndash;Recurse&nbsp;switch. Select only parent and name. This command is shown here. Sort on the parent property.&nbsp; gci -Recurse -Directory | select parent, name | sort parent Note&nbsp;&nbsp;gci&nbsp;is an alias for&nbsp;Get-ChildItem,&nbsp;select&nbsp;is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4364","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=4364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4364\/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=4364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}