Get the recycle bin content in SharePoint with PowerShell

A quick one and self-explanatory:

	# recycle bin's are tied to a site collection so we need a site collection object
	$site = get-spsite https://webapplication/sitecollection
	#we can see everything in the recycle bin like this:
	$site.Recyclebin
	#unfortunately, the above command dumps quite a lot to the screen.
	#fortunately, we can pipe the output to other commands for filtering and cleanup.
	#This command will return all the webs in the recyclebin
	$site.Recyclebin | where {$_.itemtype -eq "web"}
	#we can build on this by adding a sort statement,
	#here I sort by dirname, which is the URL path the item would have been at before it was deleted
	$site.Recyclebin | where {$_.itemtype -eq "web"} | sort dirname
	# we can format the output into a nice list
	$site.Recyclebin | where {$_.itemtype -eq "web"} | sort dirname | select title, itemtype, dirname, itemstate
	#note that in the above listing, itemstate shows which recycle bin it's in (FirstStageRecyclebin = End user Recycle Bin Items, SecondStageRecycleBin = Deleted from end user Recycle Bin)
	#here's one more application of filtering to show everything that's not a page nor a list item
	$site.RecycleBin | where { $_.itemtype -ne "file" -and $_.itemtype -ne "ListItem" } | sort dirname | select title, itemtype, dirname
	$site.RecycleBin | where { $_.itemtype -ne "ListItem" -and $_.dirname -like "team/jst/crm*" -and $_.itemtype -ne "FileVersion" } | sort dirname | select title, itemtype, DeletedDate, dirname | Out-GridView

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