Enterprise PowerShell Scripting Bootcamp

Excluding files

As you perform scanning in your environment, you will eventually want to filter out some of the false positives. This is especially true if you leverage a template to build your systems, as a multitude of commonalities might be detected. You may also want to filter out very large files that are known to be safe to optimize the scanning duration.

The Get-ChildItem cmdlet includes the -exclude parameter, which enables you to specify a string of objects that you want to exclude. The -exclude parameter also supports multiple values separated by commas and wildcards with the asterisk character. To start, you specify the Get-ChildItem cmdlet with a directory to scan as the argument. You then provide the -exclude parameter with a file ...