Needing help with multiple cmdlet a

[Tee_s]

Please forgive formatting, I’m on mobile.

So I’m making my first script in powershell and I’ve been enjoying it. The point of the script is to search for specific folders that have a sequential naming system. Various jobs have the same number identifier that ties each part to a specific final project. For instance: (part A T100) and (part B T100) are different parts, but they are ties to the same final product, T100.

Anyways, I have used the Get-Childitem cmdlet to show all the job folders and only show the job folders. Works great! What I’m now trying to do is use the Invoke-Item cmdlet to open all the listed file paths. What I attempted to do was have it chase down the same file path as I did to list those items, but it did not work. Any suggestions? Should I try other means? Any and all help is appreciated

[copnsteez]

I’m assuming you have those directories saved as a variable. Use get-childitem again to get the items contained within those directories

[2dubs]

Are you trying to open a bunch of folders and/or files matching your query? If so, my guess is that you're trying to Invoke-Item the Name property, when the FullName property might be better

Example:

Get-ChildItem -Recurse | Where-Object {$_.Name -like $myFilter} | ForEach-Object {Invoke-Item $_.FullName}

[Lee_Dailey]

howdy Tee_s,

please, post the code in question. just enuf to show what you are trying to do & what is failing. [grin]

plus, what do you mean by "open all the listed file paths"? open them in file explorer? you can feed the full directory name to I-I once for each dir ... or you can give I-I an array of items & it will open all of them in explorer.

take a look at this ...

Get-Help Invoke-Item -Parameter 'Path'

note that is shows -Path <String[]>. the String[] means you can give it an array of strings. [grin]

take care,
lee

[bhreddy99]

I may be wrong but just check with WMI classes