You can use the following methods in PowerShell to get the folder size and file count for a specific directory:
Method 1: Get Folder Size
(Get-ChildItem | Measure-Object -Property Length -Sum).Sum
This particular example will display the folder size (in bytes) of the current directory.
Method 2: Get File Count
(Get-ChildItem | Measure-Object).Count
This particular example will display the number of files in the current directory.
The following examples show how to use both methods in practice.
Example 1: How to Get Folder Size Using PowerShell
Suppose that our current directory has the following path:
- C:\Users\bobbi\OneDrive\Documents\test_data
We can type Dir to list out all files in this current directory:
Suppose that we we would like to get the folder size of this directory.
We can use the following syntax to do so:
(Get-ChildItem | Measure-Object -Property Length -Sum).Sum
The following screenshot shows how to use this syntax in practice:
We can see that the current directory has a total folder size of 8,665 bytes.
If you would instead like to display the folder size in kilobytes or megabytes, then you can divide by 1KB or 1MB as follows:
Feel free to display the folder size in whatever units you would like.
Example 2: How to Get File Count Using PowerShell
Once again suppose that our current directory has the following path:
- C:\Users\bobbi\OneDrive\Documents\test_data
We can type Dir to list out all files in this current directory:
Suppose that we we would like to get the total file count of this directory.
We can use the following syntax to do so:
(Get-ChildItem | Measure-Object).Count
The following screenshot shows how to use this syntax in practice:
We can see that there are 6 total files in this current directory.
Related Tutorials
The following tutorials explain how to perform other common tasks in PowerShell:
PowerShell: How to List Files in Directory by Date
PowerShell: How to Get Most Recently Modified File in Directory
PowerShell: How to List All Files in Directory to Text File
PowerShell: How to Delete All Files with Specific Extension
