You use Export-CSV to export a result to CSV in powershell, It's a great tool, but it also includes type information in the first line. For a GCI command, it typically creates something like; #TYPE System.IO.DirectoryInfo This breaks a single click open when you want to view the file in something like Excel. You can tell Export-CSV to stop creating the Type Info by using the switch; -NoTypeInformation So, your command ends up something like gci -recurse | export-csv "20221124.csv" -NoTypeInformation