manipulating output of get-childitem

Question

_{Thursday, May 17, 2018 2:17 PM}

I have the following two_line script:

$filenameFormat = "c:\temp\eds_file_list_" + (Get-Date -Format "yyyyMMdd_HHmmss") + ".txt"
get-childitem -Path y:\ -recurse -file > $filenameFormat

I'd like to be able to have it filter/modify the output so that block of files under directory headers, I get one record per file, with the fully qualified file name, with the file size,  thus:

x:\dir1\dir2\file_01.txt  123456
x:\dir1\dir2\dir3\file_02.txt  654987

If it gets additional info like the time stamp, that is irrelevent, I can take it or leave it, but my end goal is at least fully qualified file name and size, in essentially a delimited text file.

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_{Thursday, May 17, 2018 2:44 PM ✅Answered}

First you need to learn basic PowerSHell.  Next learn to read the help for the CmdLets.

get-childitem -Pathy:\ -recurse -file | select Fullname, Length | Export-Csv file.csv

You cannot have sub=headers in a delimited file.

get-childitem -Pathy:\ -recurse -file | Format-Table -Group DirectoryName -Properties  Fullname, Length

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_{Thursday, May 17, 2018 3:06 PM}

Perfect.  Thank you.

BTW, there was a typo on my OP, which made it misleading about the 'header' info.  Instead of "modify the output so that block of files under directory headers" it should have read "modify the output so that instead of block of files under directory headers"