Question

I’m trying to count the contents of a folder on a remote server.

I know that:

Get-ChildItem \\ServerName\c$\foldername -recurse | Measure-Object -property length -sum

works a treat.

However I’m trying to make the server name a variable, by user input, but I can’t get the path to accept any variable.

Answer 1

It’s pretty straightforward:

$server = Read-Host "Enter server name"
Get-ChildItem \\$server\users -recurse | measure-object length -sum