Get-Content : Cannot find path

1
votes

I'm trying to write a script in PowerShell which reads in a "foreach" loop all the only files in a specific folder which contains "example" in it's name. The problem is that I'm trying to save the content of each file in a variable without any success. Tried to use Get-Content $file and it throws the following error "Get-Content : Cannot find path" even though the path was set at the beginning to the Folder var and file actually contains the file that I need. I can't assign it to $FileContent

$Folder = Get-ChildItem U:\...\Source

foreach($file in $Folder)
{
    if($file.Name -Match "example")
    {
        $FileContent = Get-Content $file                
    }
}
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3 Answers

7
votes

This happens as the FileInfo object's default behavior returns just the file's name. That is, there is no path information, so Get-Content tries to access the file from current directory.

Use FileInfo's FullName property to use absolute path. Like so,

foreach($file in $Folder)
{
...
    $FileContent = Get-Content $file.FullName
1
votes

Change your working directory to U:\...\Source and then it shall work.

Use 

cd U:\...\Source
$folder = gci U:\...\Source

After you are done with your work, you can change your working directory again using cd command or the push-location cmdlet.

0
votes

try this:

Get-ChildItem U:\...\Source -file -filter "*example*" | %{

$FileContent = Get-Content $_.fullname

}