Count items in a folder with PowerShell

Question

I\'m trying to write a very simple PowerShell script to give me the total number of items (both files and folders) in a given folder (c:\\MyFolder). Here\'s wh

Answer 1

In powershell you can to use severals commands, for looking for this commands digit: Get-Alias;

So the cammands the can to use are:

write-host (ls MydirectoryName).Count

or

write-host (dir MydirectoryName).Count

or

write-host (Get-ChildrenItem MydirectoryName).Count