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Jedi Master Spooky
Asked: 2009-05-01 12:54:33 +0800 CST

PowerShell Script to Get a Directory Total Size

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I need to get the size of a directory, recursively. I have to do this every month or so. I want to make a powershell script to do it.

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  1. Best Answer

    I asked the same question in stackoverflow and I get this excellent answer:

    function Get-DirectorySize() {
  param ([string]$root = $(resolve-path .))
  gci -re $root |
    ?{ -not $_.PSIsContainer } | 
    measure-object -sum -property Length
}

    This actually produces a bit of a summary object which will include the count of items. You can just grab the Sum property though and that will be the sum of the lengths.

    $sum = (Get-DirectorySize "Some\File\Path").Sum

    Thanks to JaredPad for the answer.

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