{"id":73911,"date":"2015-08-17T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/08\/17\/powertip-recurse-specific-number-of-levels-with-powershell-5\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:35:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:35:37","slug":"powertip-recurse-specific-number-of-levels-with-powershell-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-recurse-specific-number-of-levels-with-powershell-5\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Recurse Specific Number of Levels with PowerShell 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Learn how to recurse a specific number of levels in a directory with Windows PowerShell 5.0.<\/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 recurse only three levels into a deeply nested directory structure?<\/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;In Windows PowerShell 5.0, the&nbsp;<b>Get-ChildItem<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet has a new&nbsp;<b>&ndash;Depth<\/b>&nbsp;parameter <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;that will control how deeply to recurse, for example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">Get-childitem c:\\fso &ndash;recurse &ndash;depth 3<\/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>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Learn how to recurse a specific number of levels in a directory with Windows PowerShell 5.0. &nbsp;How can I recurse only three levels into a deeply nested directory structure? &nbsp;In Windows PowerShell 5.0, the&nbsp;Get-ChildItem&nbsp;cmdlet has a new&nbsp;&ndash;Depth&nbsp;parameter &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;that will control how deeply to recurse, for example: Get-childitem c:\\fso &ndash;recurse [&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":[38,609,356,3,12,608,45],"class_list":["post-73911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-files","tag-powershell-5","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-storage","tag-windows-10","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Learn how to recurse a specific number of levels in a directory with Windows PowerShell 5.0. &nbsp;How can I recurse only three levels into a deeply nested directory structure? &nbsp;In Windows PowerShell 5.0, the&nbsp;Get-ChildItem&nbsp;cmdlet has a new&nbsp;&ndash;Depth&nbsp;parameter &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;that will control how deeply to recurse, for example: Get-childitem c:\\fso &ndash;recurse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73911","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=73911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73911\/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=73911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}