How can I list and print files in a directory?
Concerning your code in the question.
Your command should have worked as is. You are, in fact, already calling Get-ChildItem. If you check Get-Alias you will see what I'm trying to tell you.
PS C:\users\Cameron\Downloads> Get-Alias dir
CommandType Name ModuleName
----------- ---- ----------
Alias dir -> Get-ChildItem
You code translates to
Get-ChildItem -Recurse "C:\temp" | Select Fullname
Again, I'm not sure why your code does not generate output since that is perfectly fine on a folder that contains files or directories. Might be an issue with the positional parameter maybe? What is your PowerShell version? ( Use Get-Host).
The code you have would send all file paths to console. Did you want that output somewhere else?
About the accepted answer
Pretty sure this code will double up output if you have folders in the path since directory will output to the second Get-ChildItem
Dir -Recurse c:\path\ | Get-Childitem
Consider the following folder tree
C:\TEMP\TEST
│ File1.txt
│ File2.txt
│
└───Folder1
File3.txt
Consider the two command run against that folder tree.
PS C:\users\Cameron\Downloads> Dir -Recurse c:\temp\test | Select Fullname
FullName
--------
C:\temp\test\Folder1
C:\temp\test\File1.txt
C:\temp\test\File2.txt
C:\temp\test\Folder1\File3.txt
PS C:\users\Cameron\Downloads> Dir -Recurse c:\temp\test | Get-Childitem | Select Fullname
FullName
--------
C:\temp\test\Folder1\File3.txt
C:\temp\test\File1.txt
C:\temp\test\File2.txt
C:\temp\test\Folder1\File3.txt
The second command shows two files called File3.txt when in reality there is only one.
Take a look at Get-Childitem
Dir -Recurse c:\path\ | Get-Childitem
get-childitem | format-list > filename.txt
This will give you a text file with name, size, last modified, etc.
if you want specific parameters from the item... such as name of the file only the command is
get-childitem | format-list name > filename.txt
this is give you the same text file, but with just the name of the files listed.