How to make Get-ChildItem not to follow links

Question

I need Get-ChildItem to return all files/folders inside a path. But there are also symlinks going of to remote servers. The links are created by: mklink /D link \\remote-server\folder

If I run Get-ChildItem -recurse it follows the links to the remote servers and lists all files/folders from there. If I use -exclude it does not list the folder matching the excluded pattern but still goes down and lists all included files and folders.

What I actually need is Get-ChildItem -recurse to ignore links at all and not to follow them.

Answer 1

You can exclude links using a command like below:

gci <your path> -Force -Recurse -ErrorAction 'silentlycontinue' | 
Where { !($_.Attributes -match "ReparsePoint") }

After reading your comment: can't you do it in two steps?

$excluded = @(gci <your path> -Force -Recurse -ErrorAction 'silentlycontine' | where { ($_.Attributes -match "ReparsePoint") )

get-childitem -path <your path> -recurse -exclude $excluded