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SaintCore
SaintCore

Reputation: 105

Select FullName and add-content to File

I've got the following powershell line:

$items = Get-ChildItem  -Path "C:\temp" -Filter "*ä*" -Recurse | Select FullName

I want to write those paths to a *.txt file:

foreach ($item in $items){   
   add-content -Path C:\temp\test.txt -Value $item -Force
}

Output in test.txt:

@{FullName=C:\temp\ä}

How can I only write the Value of FullName to the txt-file ? For example:

echo $item

and Output in Console:

C:\temp\ä

Upvotes: 1

Views: 8475

Answers (2)

Matt
Matt

Reputation: 46730

Common gotcha with PowerShell. $items is not an array of FullNames but an object array with a fullname property. (Array assuming more that one item was returned.)

$items = Get-ChildItem  -Path "C:\temp" -Filter "*ä*" -Recurse | Select -Expand FullName

or 

# Requires PowerShell v3.0 or above
$items = (Get-ChildItem  -Path "C:\temp" -Filter "*ä*" -Recurse).Fullname

Upvotes: 7

Jeroen
Jeroen

Reputation: 63860

You should be able to do this:

foreach ($item in $items){   
   add-content -Path C:\temp\test.txt -Value $item.FullName -Force
}

Here's a common way to find this bit of info:

Get-ChildItem | Get-Member

Or the same with shorthands:

dir | gm

This will list all properties, methods, etc for the objects returned from Get-ChildItem.

Upvotes: 0

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