I have a list in my C: directory that has many files. If I try to run an -Exclude on it, I get no returns. Same with -Include. If I use -Filter, it returns what I expected to get back. Am I not understanding what it should be doing?
Here is an example of what I am running and getting nothing:
Get-ChildItem -Path C: -Exclude "*.txt"
I get nothing back. If I run
Get-Childitem -filter "*.txt"
I get this back:
Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
-a---- 11/7/2007 8:00 AM 17734 eula.1028.txt
-a---- 11/7/2007 8:00 AM 17734 eula.1031.txt
-a---- 11/7/2007 8:00 AM 10134 eula.1033.txt
-a---- 11/7/2007 8:00 AM 17734 eula.1036.txt
-a---- 11/7/2007 8:00 AM 17734 eula.1040.txt
-a---- 11/7/2007 8:00 AM 118 eula.1041.txt
-a---- 11/7/2007 8:00 AM 17734 eula.1042.txt
-a---- 11/7/2007 8:00 AM 17734 eula.2052.txt
-a---- 11/7/2007 8:00 AM 17734 eula.3082.txt
7/7/2016 8:50 AM 93 HaxLogs.txt
-a---- 7/8/2016 8:30 AM 0 Test.txt
Get-ChildItem -Path "C:\*" -Include "*.txt"
This example, of how -Include should work, will give you the results you were expecting. Note that I provided a wildcard in the path parameter as well, to explicitly define the path as "any file in the root C:" as opposed to "C:" itself.
Source: https://technet.microsoft.com/library/hh849800.aspx
Example 3 from this link, in case it goes defunct (note the wildcard in path here, as well):
C:\> Get-ChildItem –Path "C:\Windows\Logs\*" -Include "*.txt" -Exclude "A*"