Get-ChildItem IncludeRoot Parameter

RFC:
Author: John Bevan
Status: Draft
SupercededBy:
Version:
Area: Standard Functions
Comments Due:
Plan to implement:

Get-ChildItem; Add IncludeRoot Switch

Suggestion: Currently if you wish to fetch an item and its children you have to make a call to Get-Item and Get-ChildItem. Since this is a common use case, it would be good to reduce this to a single call. By adding an IncludeRoot switch to Get-ChildItem we could easily have it fulfill this requirement.

Here are some examples of people who've hit this scenario & tried to get creative in resolving it.

Motivation

As a PowerShell user,
I can retrieve an item and its children,
so that I have the full tree returned in a single result set.

User Experience

Example of user experience with example code/script.
Include example of input and output.

Get-ChildItem -Path 'c:\demo' -IncludeRoot -Recurse | Select-Object -ExpandProperty FullName

c:\demo
c:\demo\subfolder
c:\demo\subfolder\one.txt
c:\demo\subfolder\two.txt

Specification

Include [Parameter()][Switch]$IncludeRoot in the list of available parameters.

Alternate Proposals and Considerations

The current workaround is to make separate calls to Get-Item and Get-ChildItem.

Beginne mit dem RFC-Text und den verknüpften Beispielen, um den angeforderten Get-ChildItem-Workflow zu verstehen. Überprüfe das aktuelle Verhalten von -Recurse sowie den vorgeschlagenen Parameter IncludeRoot und die Ausgabe. Erledigt bedeutet, dass der Parameter, das Anwendungsbeispiel, die Ausgabe und die Designüberlegungen des RFC ausreichend geklärt sind, um mit der Implementierung zu beginnen.