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Powershell – How to recurse through folders and display relative folder path?

June 15, 2022

Here is a simple script:

$srcpth = "C:\Users\Mark\Desktop\dummy\"
$files = Get-ChildItem -Path $srcpth -File -Recurse 

foreach ($f in $files) {
    $filen = $f.Name
    $filesize = $f.Length
    Write-Output "$filen $filesize"
    }

This will correctly loop through all subfolders in C:\Users\Mark\Desktop\dummy and output file name with file size, but it will not show relative path. How do I resolve the relative path? Thanks.

EDIT: added below for clarification of desired output:

For example, under C:\Users\Mark\Desktop\dummy are subfolders with files

C:\Users\Mark\Desktop\dummy\file00.txt
C:\Users\Mark\Desktop\dummy\folder01\file01_01.txt
C:\Users\Mark\Desktop\dummy\folder01\file01_02.txt
C:\Users\Mark\Desktop\dummy\folder01\file01_03.txt

C:\Users\Mark\Desktop\dummy\folder02\file02_01.txt
C:\Users\Mark\Desktop\dummy\folder02\file02_01.txt

C:\Users\Mark\Desktop\dummy\folder03\file03_01.txt
C:\Users\Mark\Desktop\dummy\folder03\file03_02.txt
C:\Users\Mark\Desktop\dummy\folder03\file03_03.txt
C:\Users\Mark\Desktop\dummy\folder03\file03_04.txt

Output with above code produces:

file00.txt 9
file01_01.txt 10
file01_02.txt 12
file01_03.txt 12
file02_01.txt 15
file02_01.txt 14
file03_01.txt 11
file03_02.txt 15
file03_03.txt 13
file03_04.txt 12

But what I want is:

file00.txt 9
\folder01\file01_01.txt 10
\folder01\file01_02.txt 12
\folder01\file01_03.txt 12
\folder02\file02_01.txt 15
\folder02\file02_01.txt 14
\folder03\file03_01.txt 11
\folder03\file03_02.txt 15
\folder03\file03_03.txt 13
\folder03\file03_04.txt 12

preceeding \, no slash, or .\ are fine.

>Solution :

Here you go:

$srcpth = "C:\Users\Mark\Desktop\dummy\"
$files = Get-ChildItem -Path $srcpth -File -Recurse 

foreach ($f in $files) {
    $filen = $f.Name
    $filesize = $f.Length
    $relativePath = $f.fullname.remove(0,($srcpth.length))
    Write-Output "$filen $filesize $relativePath"
    }

There aren’t any object properties with the value you’re looking for. But you can calculate it like above. It’s always useful to look at the members of an object when you’re trying to figure something like this out: