I'm running Powershell v3.0 on a Windows 7 machine

I have a script to return recursive file counts for all directories for a give path:

$myPath = Get-ChildItem -Directory

foreach ($subDirectory in $myPath) {

    Write-Output Get-ChildItem -File -Recurse -LiteralPath $subDirectory.FullName | Measure-Object -Property length | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Count

}

This script works great until I have directories with square brackets ("[" or "]") in the directory name.  In that case, nothing is returned.  In fact, running the following script for a real folder with files in it displays nothing on the console when there are definitely files in this directory:

    Get-ChildItem -File -Recurse -LiteralPath ".\test [1]"

Any ideas?  Is this a known bug?  I've searched this forum and others and have found nobody with the same issue, so I suspect I'm missing something.

Thanks in advance,

Ryan

Does this help as a start ? Quoted from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff730956.aspx

$myPath = Get-ChildItem -Directory 'c:\temp\*``[*'
foreach ($subDirectory in $myPath) {
    Write-Output $subDirectory.FullName
    Write-Output Get-ChildItem -File -Recurse -LiteralPath $subDirectory.FullName | Measure-Object -Property length | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Count
}

• Proposed as answer by ImMax Monday, May 06, 2013 4:25 PM

The quoted query would return only directories containing square brackets, though I wanted my query to return all results (square brackets or not).  However I may be able to use this to concatenate results with a query for folders not containing square brackets.  I would rather not do the concatenation of results for the following reasons:

1.  There are at least 4 separate queries I would have to write: no brackets, only the opening bracket "[", only the closing bracket "]", and containing both brackets.

2.  I hate work-arounds, but I'll use them if the "correct" way does not work

Thanks for the idea, I may use it if there is indeed no single-line way of doi

how about this? or am i missing something

Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Path ".\test*

"Test [1]" was just an example, I actually won't know the names of the folders in advance.  Also, the issue is retrieving the individual (recursive) file counts for each directory in the current directory.

Ended up escaping all brackets and using the normal -Path attribute:

$myPath = Get-ChildItem -Directory

foreach ($subDirectory in $myPath) {

    Write-Output Get-ChildItem -File -Recurse -Path $subDirectory.FullName.Replace("[","``[").Replace("]","``]") | Measure-Object -Property length | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Count

}

I think there's a bug using the -LiteralPath attribute; after reading the following technet article, I realized how few characters would need escaped for the solution and just decided on good ol' .Replace:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa717088%28v=vs.85%29.

Did you ever report this as a bug?

I just reported this. Vote here if you think this should be fixed: https://connect.microsoft.com/PowerShell/feedbackdetail/view/1707779/