{"id":7161,"date":"2015-03-20T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/03\/20\/powertip-use-powershell-to-count-images\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:30:12","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:30:12","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-count-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-count-images\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Count Images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to count images.<\/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 to count images on a drive?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><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;<b>Get-ChildItem<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet, specify the path, and send the results to the&nbsp;<b>Measure-Object<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet, <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;for example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:90px\">dir -Recurse -ea 0 -File -path e:\\data -include &quot;*.gif&quot;,&quot;*.jpg&quot;, &quot;*.png&quot;, &quot;*.bmp&quot; | measure<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:60px\"><b>Note<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>Dir<\/b>&nbsp;is an alias for&nbsp;<b>Get-ChildItem<\/b>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<b>Measure<\/b>&nbsp;is an alias for&nbsp;<b>Measure-Object<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to count images. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to count images on a drive? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-ChildItem&nbsp;cmdlet, specify the path, and send the results to the&nbsp;Measure-Object&nbsp;cmdlet, &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;for example: dir -Recurse -ea 0 -File -path e:\\data -include &quot;*.gif&quot;,&quot;*.jpg&quot;, &quot;*.png&quot;, &quot;*.bmp&quot; | measure Note&nbsp;&nbsp;Dir&nbsp;is an [&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-7161","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: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to count images. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to count images on a drive? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-ChildItem&nbsp;cmdlet, specify the path, and send the results to the&nbsp;Measure-Object&nbsp;cmdlet, &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;for example: dir -Recurse -ea 0 -File -path e:\\data -include &quot;*.gif&quot;,&quot;*.jpg&quot;, &quot;*.png&quot;, &quot;*.bmp&quot; | measure Note&nbsp;&nbsp;Dir&nbsp;is an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7161","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=7161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7161\/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=7161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}