I am currently working on a script that needs to do the following :

• Find all duplicate files on a specific folder based on their hash
• Display their path and size
• Export the results into a csv

But I don’t want the script to go into subfolders that are symbolic links

And that’s my issue. No matter what I do, the script refuses to ignore those “symbolic link” type subfolders

Here’s what the script looks like right now, which is working aside from the “symbolic link” exclusion issue :

Get-ChildItem -Path $srcDir -File -Recurse |
    Group-Object -Property Length |
    Where-Object Count -GT 1 |
    ForEach-Object Group |
    Get-FileHash |
    Group-Object Hash |
    Where-Object Count -GT 1 |
    ForEach-Object Group |
    Select-Object Path, Hash, @{ N = 'Length'; E = { [System.IO.FileInfo]::new($_.Path).Length}} |
    Export-Csv -Path C:TempResult.csv -NoTypeInformation

The folder “C:UserstestDocumentsfolder”, contains 2 sub-folders (named “Subfolder_A” and “Subfolder_B”) that are symbolic links

And the script always icludes them into the search despite me not wanting to

Here’s what I tried so far

I changed the Get-ChildItem line by this :

Get-ChildItem -Path $srcDir -File -Recurse | Where-Object -property Attributes -NotLike -value "*ReparsePoint*" |

This :

Get-ChildItem -Path $srcDir -File -Recurse | Where-Object Attributes -NotLike "*ReparsePoint*" |

And this :

Get-ChildItem -Path $srcDir -File -Recurse | Where-Object{$_.Name -notmatch ("Subfolder_A" -join "|")} |

But it stills goes into “Subfolder_A” and “Subfolder_B”

I don’t know why the script refuses to bypass symbolic links.

Thanks in advance for your help