have Powershell get-childitem return files only

I'd like to use get-childitem recursively, but only have it return files not directories. The best solution I have just doesn't seem natural:

gci . *.* -rec | where { $_.GetType().Name -eq "FileInfo" } 

3 Answers

Try this:

gci . *.* -rec | where { ! $_.PSIsContainer } 

In Powershell 3.0, it is simpler,

gci -Directory #List only directories gci -File #List only files 

This is even shorter,

gci -ad # alias for -Directory gci -af # alias for -File 

In powershell 2.0 the best and simplest solution i came up with is to include all files with an extension:

get-childitem -Recurse -include *.* 

folders doesn't have an extension so they are excluded, beware of no extension named files.