List file count by subfolder - powershell

Question

I am trying to use powershell to produce a list of folder names and how many files are in each folder.
I have this script
$dir = "C:\Users\folder"
Get-ChildItem $dir -Recurse -Directory | ForEach-Object{
[pscustomobject]#{
Folder = $_.FullName
Count = #(Get-ChildItem -Path $_.Fullname -File).Count
}
} | Select-Object Folder,Count
Which lists the file count, but it puts the full path (i.e. C:\Users\name\Desktop\1\2\-movi...). Is there any way to just display the last folder ("movies") as well as save the result to a .txt file?
Thank you

Answer 1

Instead of $_.FullName, use $_.Name to only get the directory name.
Your Select-Object call is redundant - it is effectively a no-op.
While it's easy to send the results to a .txt file with >, for instance, it's better to use a more structured format for later programmatic processing.
In the simplest form, that means outputting to a CSV file via Export-Csv; generally, however, the most faithful way of serializing objects to a file is to use Export-CliXml.
Using Export-Csv for serialization:
$dir = 'C:\Users\folder'
Get-ChildItem -LiteralPath $dir -Recurse -Directory | ForEach-Object {
[pscustomobject] #{
Folder = $_.Name
Count = #(Get-ChildItem -LiteralPath $_.Fullname -File).Count
}
} | Export-Csv -NoTypeInformation results.csv
Note that you could streamline your command by replacing the ForEach-Object call with a Select-Object call that uses a calculated property:
$dir = 'C:\Users\folder'
Get-ChildItem -LiteralPath $dir -Recurse -Directory |
Select-Object Name,
#{ n='Count'; e={#(Get-ChildItem -LiteralPath $_.Fullname -File).Count} } |
Export-Csv -NoTypeInformation results.csv

Answer 2

You mean something like this...
Clear-Host
Get-ChildItem -Path 'd:\temp' -Recurse -Directory |
Select-Object Name,FullName,
#{Name='FileCount';Expression = {(Get-ChildItem -Path $_.FullName -File -Recurse| Measure-Object).Count}} `
| Format-Table -AutoSize
# Results
Name FullName FileCount
---- -------- ---------
abcpath0 D:\temp\abcpath0 5
abcpath1 D:\temp\abcpath1 5
abcpath2 D:\temp\abcpath2 5
Duplicates D:\temp\Duplicates 12677
EmptyFolder D:\temp\EmptyFolder 0
NewFiles D:\temp\NewFiles 4
PngFiles D:\temp\PngFiles 4
results D:\temp\results 905
...