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David Garcia
David Garcia

Reputation: 2696

Out-File path format is not supported

I am grabbing the last line of a file and outputing it in another file with the same name with a "t" prefix but an errors comes up.

$path   = 'D:\files\'
$inc = @("*txt_*")
$exc = @("*csv_*")
$List = Get-ChildItem -Path $path -recurse -include $inc -exclude $exc

foreach ($item in $List) {
    Get-Content $item.Fullname -Tail 1 | Out-File -Encoding Ascii $path"t-"$item
}

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However, if I dont prepend the file name it works fine.

Get-Content $item.Fullname -Tail 1 | Out-File -Encoding Ascii $path"t-"

What is wrong with this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 609

Answers (1)

Ansgar Wiechers
Ansgar Wiechers

Reputation: 200463

Prepend the filename with T- and build the destination path from the folder name and the modified filename:

Get-ChildItem -Path $path -Recurse -Include $inc -Exclude $exc | ForEach-Object {
  $dst = Join-Path $_.Directory.FullName ($_.Name -replace '^', 'T-')
  Get-Content $_.FullName -Tail 1 | Set-Content $dst -Encoding ascii
}

Upvotes: 2

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