Powershell script to omit traversing access denied folders from a list of folders

Question

I was trying to do a script to list extract the folders and subfolders and the number of files for a particular path of directory. How to exclude the folders whose access is denied in the script?

I used the get-childitem code snippet along with where {$_.permission -match "read", I don't know if what I am trying is correct or not. I ended up with the following error:message:

CategoryInfo : ReadError: (\support....-242\New folder:String) [Get-ChildItem], IOException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : DirIOError,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetChildItemCommand

Answer 1

You can set your error action preference per cmdlet like:

Get-ChildItem -recurse -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | ? {$_.permission -match "read"}

Or you can set it per script using the System variable:

$ErrorActionPreference = "SilentlyContinue"

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