powershell - Limit Get-ChildItem recursion depth

Question

I can get all sub-items recursively using this command:

Get-ChildItem -recurse

But is there a way to limit the depth? If I only want to recurse one or two levels down for example?

Answer 1

Use this to limit the depth to 2:

Get-ChildItem ***,**,*

The way it works is that it returns the children at each depth 2,1 and 0.

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Explanation:

This command

Get-ChildItem ***

returns all items with a depth of two subfolders. Adding * adds an additional subfolder to search in.

In line with the OP question, to limit a recursive search using get-childitem you are required to specify all the depths that can be searched.