Vista - Converting Get-ChildItems to string for processing.

Why, when I use Get-ChildItem, can I not use the Array of files
returned as a text array.

I want to pass the filename to function to process the strings of the
filenames.!

Basically, in the sample script below how would I assign the $aFile to
a variable I could use as a string!?

Thanks in advance,
Russ
#############################################################################

$MonitorDir="C:\PowerShell\TEST"

#### FUNCTIONS ####
function ReadSubDirectories ([string]$InLine){
Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Path $InLine | Where {$_.psIsContainer -eq
$true}
}
function ReadDirContents ([string]$InLine){
Get-ChildItem -Path $InLine | format-list -property name
}

$SubDirs = ReadSubDirectories $MonitorDir
foreach ($Sub in $SubDirs ){
$FileList = ReadDirContents $Sub
foreach ($aFile in $FileList){
#$aFile
"File " + $aFile
}
}

########################################################
I get :
File Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Internal.Format.FormatStartData
File Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Internal.Format.GroupStartData
File Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Internal.Format.FormatEntryData
File Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Internal.Format.FormatEntryData
File Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Internal.Format.FormatEntryData
File Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Internal.Format.FormatEntryData
File Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Internal.Format.FormatEntryData
File Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Internal.Format.FormatEntryData
File Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Internal.Format.GroupEndData
File Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Internal.Format.FormatEndData

Hi

Remove the '... format-list -property name' in 'ReadDirContents' function

format-* cmdlets should be used as the last cmdlet in the pipeline, they are
inteneded to format objects to strings and disply them in the console.

BTW, '$_.psIsContainer' will always evaluate to $true, and so you can safely
write:

Where {$_.psIsContainer}

Instaed of:

Where {$_.psIsContainer -eq $true}




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Shay Levi
$cript Fanatic
http://scriptolog.blogspot.com

Russ,

If I get you, you want to get all files recursively from a starting root
directory. If so, you can replace
your code with a one-liner:

Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Path <path> | Where {!$_.psIsContainer} | foreach
{$_.fullname}

Notice that now 'Where {!$_.psIsContainer}' evaluates to $false since you
don't need to process directoryInfo objects.
Another notation for the above is 'Where {-not $_.psIsContainer}' which also
evaluates to $false.



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Shay Levi
$cript Fanatic
http://scriptolog.blogspot.com

Thanks Shay,
That's got it.