get-content and passing arguements to a function?

Hi guys,

Is there a way to read .txt file formated like this:

Server-A C:

and pass "server-a" as $args[0] and pass "C:" as $args[1] to a function?

Thanks in advance!

If the arguments are on the first line of the file then you can split it
and pass the returned array items to a function:

$a = (get-content d:\scripts\temp\file.txt -totalCount 1).split()

callToYourFunction $a[0] $a[1]




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

# create a temp file with sample data
sc .\tmp.txt ("`tServer-A N:","`tServer-B P:","`tServer-S R:",
"`tServer-X T:","`tServer-Z Y:")

# a simple function to test against
function viewArgs {
write-host `$args`[0`] = $args[0] `$args`[1`] = $args[1]
}

# get sample data, trim and split each line, assign split values to
# $a1 and $a2 then pass them to the function
gc .\tmp.txt | % {$a1, $a2 = $_.trim().split(); viewArgs $a1 $a2}

# delete temp file
ri .\tmp.txt

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Kiron

I can see the arguments once pass to my function but I try to use them in a
gmi query I get nothing. What am I doing wrong?

$a = (get-content C:\PowerShellScripts\diskservers.txt -totalCount 1).split()

function GetDisks
{
get-WmiObject -class Win32_LogicalDisk -computername $args[0], -filter
"DriveType=3" | ?{$_.DeviceID -eq $args[1]}
}

ForEach ($server in $a)
{
GetDisks $a[0] $a[1]
}


"Shay Levi" wrote:

Hi akcorr,

I write a simple function for you to test your code. Call Show-Args instead
of 'GetDrives':
PS C:\> function Show-Args { PS C:\> Show-Args 1 2 3
1 : 1
2 : 2
3 : 3

It will display the parameter(s) passed on the command line.

The split method will not work properly, if the spaces between the hostname
and drive are greater than 1.
$a = (get-content -totalCount 1).split()

You can try the following code which is using regular expression to split
the string.
foreach($h in (Get-Content .\name.txt)) {
$tmp = [regex]::split($h, '\s+');
Show-Args $tmp[0] $tmp[1]
}

the content of my 'name.txt'(2 spaces separate the servername & drivename):
Host1 C:
Host2 D:

Tao Ma

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