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Pelicer
Pelicer

Reputation: 1574

Get-ChildItem -Path Getting Current Directory

I have a simple task of getting a file from one path and copying it to another using PowerShell script. Now, I understand that using Get-ChildItem, if-Path is not specified, it will get the current directory. I'm using this code, setting the directory the file is in, but it is still getting the current directory:

$file = Get-ChildItem -Path "\\w102xnk172\c$\inetpub\wwwroot\PC_REPORTS\exemplo\DCT\Files\STC" | Sort-Object LastWriteTime | Select-Object -Last 1
Copy-Item $file -Destination "\\Brhnx3kfs01.vcp.amer.dell.com\brh_shipping$\DEMAND_MONITOR\"
cmd /c pause | out-null

It returns this error when it pauses:

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This is script follow the rules in the documentation of both Get-ChildItem and Copy-Item. Am I missing something? Why is it still getting the current directory? I tried mutiple syntaxes differences, getting the paths out of commas, not setting -Path or -Destination, setting the file directly in the Copy-Item without using the $file variable...

Upvotes: 0

Views: 6908

Answers (1)

Mathias R. Jessen
Mathias R. Jessen

Reputation: 174465

Copy-Item expects a [string] as the first positional argument - so it attempts to convert $file to a string, which results in the name of the file.

Either reference the FullName property value (the full path) of the file:

Copy-Item $file.FullName -Destination "\\Brhnx3kfs01.vcp.amer.dell.com\brh_shipping$\DEMAND_MONITOR\"

Or pipe the $file object to Copy-Item and let pipeline binding do its magic for you:

$file |Copy-Item -Destination "\\Brhnx3kfs01.vcp.amer.dell.com\brh_shipping$\DEMAND_MONITOR\"

If you want to see for yourself how this is processed internally by powershell for yourself, use Trace-Command:

Trace-Command -Name ParameterBinding -Expression {Copy-Item $file -Destination "\\Brhnx3kfs01.vcp.amer.dell.com\brh_shipping$\DEMAND_MONITOR\"} -PSHost

Upvotes: 2

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