I'm running a command to find the amount of space .xar files (it's a Citrix temp file of sort) are using on my organization's main file server. The server itself presents quite a few terabytes of data and all our user's profile folders are there, so we're talking about many thousands of folders with a whole mess of files. The command I was using is the following:
(gci w: -r -force -include *.xar | measure -sum -property Length).Sum
It took a long time to run, at least 5 hours, but it was finished when I got back to my desk this morning. Turns out we have 63 gigabytes of those .xar files.
I have a few questions:
1) Is this the best way to get that info?
2) If I need to put that command into a variable {$size = (gci w: -r -force ... Length).Sum} to get other info, am I going to kill my poor server's memory?
Thank you
zarberg@gmail.com