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Excluding specific folder path in powershell

So i have this script that recursively pulls all permissions off of every folder and every drive. It works well and gets the info i need, but I was wanting to exclude several folders as to speed up the process. Is there an easy mod to this script that will help that.?

$ErrorActionPreference = "Continue" 
$strComputer = $env:ComputerName 
$colDrives = Get-PSDrive -PSProvider Filesystem 
ForEach ($DriveLetter in $colDrives) { 
    $StartPath = "$DriveLetter`:\" 
    Get-ChildItem -LiteralPath $StartPath -Recurse | 
    ForEach { 
      $FullPath = Get-Item -LiteralPath (Get-Item -LiteralPath $_.PSPath) 
      (Get-Item -LiteralPath $FullPath).GetAccessControl() | 
      Select * -Expand Access | 
      Select @{N='Server Name';E={$strComputer}}, 
             @{N='Full Path';E={$FullPath}}, 
             @{N='Type';E={If($FullPath.PSIsContainer -eq $True) {'D'} Else {'F'}}}, 
             @{N='Owner';E={$_.Owner}}, 
             @{N='Trustee';E={$_.IdentityReference}}, 
             @{N='Inherited';E={$_.IsInherited}}, 
             @{N='Inheritance Flags';E={$_.InheritanceFlags}}, 
             @{N='Ace Flags';E={$_.PropagationFlags}}, 
             @{N='Ace Type';E={$_.AccessControlType}}, 
             @{N='Access Masks';E={$_.FileSystemRights}} } | 
      Export-CSV -NoTypeInformation -Delimiter "|" –Path "$strComputer`_$DriveLetter.csv" }

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Spencer Scherer

You could do an if/else inside the foreach. If ($fullpath -eq "path") {do nothing} else { run your script }.

You can either define each "path" to exclude individually with if statements or you can make an array that you'd like to exclude.

Leadtheway

ASKER

I'm not sure I'm understanding. I'm still getting used to powershell so sometimes i struggle getting fancy..lol

Leadtheway

ASKER

or is there a way i could import a CSV of the folder paths I want to run against?

Qlemo

-Exclude for Get-ChildItem should do exactly that - exclude partitial matches of the path name.
This

      $FullPath = Get-Item -LiteralPath (Get-Item -LiteralPath $_.PSPath) 
      (Get-Item -LiteralPath $FullPath).GetAccessControl() |

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is much too much. $_ already contains the item, so it should just be

      ($_.GetAccessControl() |

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Qlemo

If you want to use a positive list, does it only contain the folder name, or the path?

Leadtheway

ASKER

i could do either, which would be easier?

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