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Cataster
Cataster

Reputation: 3481

why is the directory being redirected to C:\?

I have the following script to remove folders/files remotely 

$Directory = "E:\Data"
Invoke-Command -Computer $Server -ScriptBlock { 
    param ($dir, $name)

$f = Get-ChildItem -Path $dir | Where {$_.Name -Match "$name"}
If ($f) {
    $f | Foreach {
        Remove-Item $_ -confirm:$false -Recurse -Verbose 
    }
}
else {
    Write-Verbose "No file found"
}
} -ArgumentList $Directory, $DB

for some reason, it tries to look for files in C:\users\documents instead...even though i clearly defined the directory param at E:\Data

Cannot find path 'C:\Users\Documents\file.3.db' because it does not exist.

so file.3.db actually exists on E:\Data...yet somehow its merging that with C:\ directory...which the file doesnt exist on and outputting that error message. i am confused how is that happening

EDIT: the below code works just fine, but i updated it to that one above because i wanted file checking...though now that rendered the code to not work anymore:

Invoke-Command -Computer $Server -ScriptBlock { 
    param ($dir, $name)
    Get-ChildItem -Path $dir | 
        Where {$_.Name -Match "$name"} | 
            Remove-Item -confirm:$false -Recurse -Verbose 
} -ArgumentList $Directory, $DB

Upvotes: 0

Views: 192

Answers (1)

Kory Gill
Kory Gill

Reputation: 7153

You can debug this all locally and see the issue. Mainly, you need to Select the FullName with -ExpandProperty as well.

$Directory = "d:\temp"
Invoke-Command -Computer $Server -ScriptBlock { 
    param ($dir, $name)

    Write-Output "dir='$dir', name='$name'"

    $f = Get-ChildItem -Path $dir | Where {$_.Name -Match $name} | Select -ExpandProperty FullName
    if ($f) {
        $f | Foreach {
            Remove-Item $_ -confirm:$false -Verbose -WhatIf
        }
    }
    else {
        Write-Verbose "No file found"
    }
} -ArgumentList $Directory, "test*"

NOTE: I added a -WhatIf to the Remove-Item call for testing so I did not remove any data in my machine. I also removed -Recurse since that makes no sense to me...but you can add it back to my test code of course.

From this, I think you can get your final solution working.

Upvotes: 2

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