How do a capture the result of a command in a script? For example, the
following will return the file last written, dir | sort -prop LastWriteTime |
select -last 1. How do I save that so I can later use the name?



Bruce

Could try something like this

PS> $t = dir | sort -prop LastWriteTime | select -last 1
PS> $t.name
test1
PS>


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"Bruce Wilkinson" wrote:

> How do a capture the result of a command in a script? For example, the
> following will return the file last written, dir | sort -prop LastWriteTime |
> select -last 1. How do I save that so I can later use the name?
>
> Bruce

On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 08:30:00 -0800, Bruce Wilkinson
<BruceWilkinson@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>How do a capture the result of a command in a script? For example, the
>following will return the file last written, dir | sort -prop LastWriteTime |
>select -last 1. How do I save that so I can later use the name?
>
>Bruce

Bruce,

I assume you want to save the information in a file. If not then
simply assign it to a variable as in the first line of code which
follows.

The following works for me.

$a = dir | sort -prop LastWriteTime | select-object -Last 1
$a > C:\Last.txt

NOTE: The following does NOT work. At least it doesn't work as
expected for me.

(dir | sort -prop LastWriteTime | select-object -Last 1) > C:\Last.txt

Andrew Watt MVP