{"id":4449,"date":"2015-07-15T11:56:19","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T15:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jdhitsolutions.com\/blog\/?p=4449"},"modified":"2015-07-22T14:56:30","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T18:56:30","slug":"measure-that-folder-with-powershell-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdhitsolutions.com\/blog\/powershell\/4449\/measure-that-folder-with-powershell-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Measure that Folder with PowerShell Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year I posted a PowerShell function<\/a> to measure the size of a folder. I recently had a need to use it again, and realized it needed a few tweaks. By default, the original version recursively searched through all subfolders. But there may be situations where you only want to measure the top level folder, so I added a \u2013NoRecurse parameter. I also added a parameter to display an average value as well.<\/p>\n

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\nFigure 1 Measuring the Temp folder in GB
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\nFigure 2 Measuring my Documents folder including average size in KB
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Here is the updated function:<\/p>\n

Function Measure-Folder {\r\n\r\n<#\r\n.SYNOPSIS\r\nMeasure the size of a folder.\r\n\r\n.DESCRIPTION\r\nThis command will take a file path and create a custom measurement object that shows the number of files and the total size. The default size will be in bytes but you can specify a different unit of measurement. The command will format the result accordingly and dynamically change the property name as well.\r\n\r\n.PARAMETER Path\r\nThe default is the current path. The command will fail if it is not a FileSystem path.\r\n\r\n.Parameter Average\r\nCalculate the average file size. This will be formatted with the same unit as the total size.\r\n\r\n.PARAMETER NoRecurse\r\nThe default behavior is to recurse through all subfolders. But you can suppress that by using -NoRecurse.\r\n\r\n.PARAMETER Unit\r\nThe default unit of measurement is bytes, but you can use any of the standard PowerShell numeric shortcuts: \"KB\",\"MB\",\"GB\",\"TB\",\"PB\"\r\n\r\n.EXAMPLE\r\nPS C:\\> measure-folder c:\\scripts \r\n\r\nPath            Name         Count         Size\r\n----            ----         -----         ----\r\nC:\\scripts      scripts       2858     43800390\r\n\r\nMeasure the scripts folder using the default size of bytes.\r\n\r\n.EXAMPLE\r\n\r\nPS C:\\> dir c:\\scripts -Directory | measure-folder -Unit kb | Sort Size* -Descending | Select -first 5 | format-table -AutoSize\r\n\r\nPath                     Name          Count          SizeKB\r\n----                     ----          -----          ------\r\nC:\\scripts\\GP            GP               40  2287.080078125\r\nC:\\scripts\\Workflow      Workflow         64 1253.0185546875\r\nC:\\scripts\\modhelp       modhelp           1  386.4970703125\r\nC:\\scripts\\stuff         stuff             4       309.09375\r\nC:\\scripts\\ADTFM-Scripts ADTFM-Scripts    76  297.7880859375\r\n\r\nGet all the child folders under C:\\scripts, measuring the size in KB. Sort the results on the size property in descending order. Then select the first 5 objects and format the results as a table.\r\n\r\n.EXAMPLE\r\nPS C:\\> measure-folder $env:temp -Average -unit MB\r\n\r\nPath   : C:\\Users\\Jeff\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\r\nName   : Temp\r\nCount  : 64626\r\nSizeMB : 6769.94603252411\r\nAvgMB  : 0.104755764437287\r\n\r\nMeasure all the %TEMP% folder, including a file average all formatted in MB.\r\n.NOTES\r\nLast Updated: July 13, 2015\r\nVersion     : 2.0\r\n\r\nOriginally published at http:\/\/jdhitsolutions.com\/blog\/scripting\/3715\/friday-fun-the-measure-of-a-folder\/\r\n\r\nLearn more about PowerShell:\r\n
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