Trying to delete all files in all subfolders with a Powershell script, but can't find a way to exclude the deletion of files in the root folder

I wrote a Powershell script that deletes all files in the subfolders of the current path.
It works fine, but it also deletes all files in the current/root folder. How can I exclude that folder?

$CountedFiles = (Get-ChildItem -File -Recurse | Measure-Object).Count
$NewCountedFiles = ($CountedFiles - 1)
$path = Get-Location
Get-ChildItem -Path $path -Include *.* -Exclude *.ps1 -File -Recurse | foreach { $_.Delete()}

Write-Host "Es wurde(n) '$NewCountedFiles' Datei(en) in allen Unterordnern und im derzeitigen Ordner im Pfad: '$path' gelöscht!" 

pause

Currently I have it so that it exludes the .ps1 (Powershell Script File) for testing so it doesn't deletes itself.

I tried to find a way to exclude the root folder, but haven't found one since I am new to Powershell. I hope that someone knows an easy why to do so.

If you need to delete the files, but not the subfolders, you can try this:

$files = Get-ChildItem -Path $pwd -File -Recurse
$filesToDelete = $files | Where-Object { $_.Directory.FullName -ne $pwd }
$filesToDelete | Remove-Item -Force

And you delete all the files without remove the root content and the subfolders.

You could just iterate over the top-level subdirectory children of the current location instead of starting at the current location itself:

Get-ChildItem -Directory | ForEach { 
  Get-ChildItem -Recurse $_ | Sort-Object -Property FullName | ForEach {
    $_.Delete() 
  }
}

That will delete subdirectories as well as files; if you only want to delete the files, go with Victor Silva's answer.

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A PowerShell-idiomatic solution that takes advantage of direct pipeline support in Get-ChildItem and Remove-Item:

Get-ChildItem $path -Directory |  # Get only the subdirectires
  Get-ChildItem -Include *.* -Exclude *.ps1 -File -Recurse | # Look for files in each
  Remove-Item -WhatIf

^{Note: The -WhatIf common parameter in the command above previews the operation. Remove -WhatIf and re-execute once you're sure the operation will do what you want.}

If you add -OutVariable files to the 2nd Get-ChildItem call, you can use $files.Count to get the count of deleted files later.