Vista - Out-File redirection is driving me crazy

Hi everyone,
I'm taking a citrix exported user list and converting it to import into AD.
I have a app file for each application and want to save userlist in another
file.
My script runs like this:
PS D:\> $files= dir *.app
PS D:\> foreach ($file in $files) {Get-Content $file |
Select-String -SimpleMatch domainname
|% {$_ -replace '"domainname"/"','domainname\'}
|% {$_ -replace '";',';'}
|% {$_ -replace '".',';'}
| out-file -filepath "c:\$file" }

It reports Out-File : The given path's format is not supported.

If I just use $file it complains: Get-Content : The process cannot access
the file because it is being used by another process.

Well, I just found it while i was writing this. $file is full path, so I was
doing C:\d:\...

I could solve it using $file.Name (almost)

"Cesar Garcia" <CesarGarcia@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:86B42B1F-3172-46E6-9B30-255CA207DD27@xxxxxxSince Get-Content is reading the file while you are trying to write back to
the same file you are going to run into problems with this approach so try
this:

PS D:\> $files= dir *.app
PS D:\> foreach ($file in $files) { (Get-Content $file) |
Select-String -SimpleMatch domainname
|% {$_ -replace '"domainname"/"','domainname\'}
|% {$_ -replace '";',';'}
|% {$_ -replace '".',';'}
| out-file $file }

Putting the () around the Get-Content will cause it to read the while file
in before it starts sending lines down the pipe. If your file is really
large, this approach isn't the best way to accomplish your goal. In that
case, use a temp file and when you are done copy the temp file over the
original file.

--
Keith

"Keith Hill [MVP]" <r_keith_hill@xxxxxx_spam_I> wrote in message
news:6AD7E017-2592-4677-932A-D94CE4F4B265@xxxxxxThat should say "cause it to read the *whole* file".

--
Keith

My problem was with $file in Out-File. Sometimes I was getting full path like
D:\path\to\file\excel.app and sometimes just file. I wasn't getting expected
results even using $file.Name so... I added an extesion and wrote following
code:

foreach ($file in $files) {Get-Content $file |
Select-String -SimpleMatch munimadrid
|% {$_ -replace '"munimadrid"/"','munimadrid\'}
|% {$_ -replace '";',';'}
|% {$_ -replace '".',';'}
|out-file ("$file" + '.list') }

And it just works. I'll try your approach Keith to see if it improves
performance.

I was getting some problems with $file name. Sometimes I was getting full
path, sometimes just $files.Name. Anyway I was unable to get it working,
until I followed this approach.

PS D:> foreach ($file in $files) {Get-Content $file |
Select-String -SimpleMatch domainname
|% {$_ -replace '"domainname"/"','domainname\'}
|% {$_ -replace '";',';'}
|% {$_ -replace '".',';'}
|out-file ("$file" + '.list') }

I'll try your suggestion too Keith, to see if it improves performance
anyway. Thanks