Dos command to return file size

Daniel Agans Daniel Agans 3 3 silver badges 12 12 bronze badges. The only cosmetic issue is that the output places an extra blank line between all filenames.

Any way to get rid of these blank lines? Believe you could just pipe to convertto-preferredformat — Daniel Agans.

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This is the most elegant solution if you don't require an integer return value. I guess it's not possible to print file sizes in some more useful units, like kB or MB, right? Double quotes instead of single quotes. Joey Joey k 80 80 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Steve, in my eyes PowerShell is way more Unix-y than Unix in that most core commands are really orthogonal.

In Unix du gives directory size but all it's doing is walking the tree and summing up. Something that can be very elegantly expressed in a pipeline like here So for PowerShell I usually look for how you can decompose the high-level goal into suitable lower-level operations.

I see, it seems to ignore hidden folders that way. Sum" — zumalifeguard. But perhaps such things are better asked as a separate question if you have trouble with that part as it has no relation to the original question here.

Show 10 more comments. Is there a way to show all the files and size in Mb in the base folder as well? Plus it breaks when there are lots of folders For example in the C: drive — Raunak Thomas. That's how ft Format-Table works. You can try fl instead Format-List — frizik. Steve Steve k 21 21 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. That's hardly "without any 3rd-party tool", I guess.

Oh right, but it thought that family should not be considered '3rd party'. I wholeheartedly agree though, that all the sysinternals tools should be included by default. Although for many uses PowerShell is a quite worthy replacement.

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The path to start searching for files. If not specified, the current directory. Execute command on each file where command is a command string , enclosed in double quotes.

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