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Try this:<br />
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&nbsp;Set-Location C:\T2\postoffices<br />
Get-ChildItem . | where{$_.Psiscontainer} | ? {$_.Fullname -like &quot;C:\T2\postoffices\*\bad&quot; } | select name &gt;&gt;&nbsp;c:\list.txt
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errors saying Where is an invalid argument
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Really seems like you're overcomplicating your script. &nbsp;Try this instead:<br />
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<pre><code class="code-1 nolinks" id="code-20-39927840-1"><span>$BadDirs = Get-ChildItem C:\T2 -Recurse | ? { $_.name -eq &quot;bad&quot; }</span>
<span>$BadDirs | Export-CSV C:\baddirs.csv</span>
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Works but I need the output to to be similar to <br />
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C:\t2\XXXXX\bad<br />
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so I can compare to an existing file and add the path if it does not exist. I am sure I will have questions about that also. :-)
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<pre><code class="code-1 nolinks" id="code-20-39927859-1"><span>$folders = Get-ChildItem C:\T2\postoffices -recurse | ? {$_.Psiscontainer} | ? {$_.Fullname -like &quot;*\bad&quot; } | select Fullname</span>
<span>$folders | out-file c:\list.txt </span>
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both work but give me a header:<br />
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FullName &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <br />
-------- &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <br />
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This wil be a problem when &nbsp;comparing to the existing file I think.
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Thank so much. &nbsp;This will save a ton of time in the future. On to the next problem.
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I need a list of directory paths that start c:\t2\ &nbsp; and end in &nbsp; \bad &nbsp;with varying folder structure. I tried this but it does not work.<br />
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&nbsp;Set-Location C:\T2\postoffices<br />
Get-ChildItem . | where{$_.Psiscontainer} -eq &quot;C:\T2\postoffices\*\bad&quot; | select name &gt;&gt;&nbsp;c:\list.txt
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I need a list of directory paths that start c:\t2\   and end in   \bad  with varying folder structure. I tried this but it does not work.

 Set-Location C:\T2\postoffices
Get-ChildItem . | where{$_.Psiscontainer} -eq "C:\T2\postoffices\*\bad" | select name >> c:\list.txt

Powershell script to make a list of all directory paths that end in \bad

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