writing out to file

[Braden C. Roberson-Mailloux]

Hello everyone;

I'm writing a one-line to take the recursive contents of a directory and
write its contents out to file with send prefixed in front of the $_.name
object.

It goes like this:

dir -recurse | ForEach-Object { write-host send $_name } | Out-File
ftp_batch.txt

but it does not write to file.

Any pointers?

[Keith Hill [MVP]]

"Braden C. Roberson-Mailloux" <br...@vom.com> wrote in message
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First you don't want to use Write-Host since that writes directly to the
host's UI and can't be redirected to a file using Out-File or >. You want
to use Write-Output instead. Second, you are missing a '.' between $_ and
name. Finally since you want to put the "send" and the name on the same line
you should do this:

dir -r | foreach { "send $($_.name)" } > ftp_batch.txt

Note that when PowerShell sees a string like "send $($_.name)" it implicitly
outputs it just as if you had written - write-output "send $($_.name)".

--
Keith

[Braden C. Roberson-Mailloux]

It works. Awesome.
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[Braden C. Roberson-Mailloux]

Thanks for the response, Keith. I'll give this a shot and report back.

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