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?

"Braden C. Roberson-Mailloux" <bray@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:#Z$oFd5tIHA.1220@xxxxxx

> 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?

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

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

"Keith Hill [MVP]" <r_keith_hill@xxxxxx_no_spam_I> wrote in message
news:8882F6B5-7458-4648-9510-BB6AE0C7C670@xxxxxx

> "Braden C. Roberson-Mailloux" <bray@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:#Z$oFd5tIHA.1220@xxxxxx

>> 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?

>
> 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

It works. Awesome.
"Keith Hill [MVP]" <r_keith_hill@xxxxxx_no_spam_I> wrote in message
news:8882F6B5-7458-4648-9510-BB6AE0C7C670@xxxxxx

> "Braden C. Roberson-Mailloux" <bray@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:#Z$oFd5tIHA.1220@xxxxxx

>> 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?

>
> 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