In the powershell command-line I can execute the following
$list = Get-ChildItem $path -name
foreach($k in $list){Write-host $k}
And it will list all the filenames in $path
But if I copy and paste the same thing in code to execute, the output is blank
Why would this even happen?
Write-Host will write the string directly to the Host aka. the command line window, nowhere else
Just replace Write-Host with Write-Output if you want $k written to STDOUT:
$list = Get-ChildItem $path -name
foreach($k in $list){Write-Output $k}
But in reality, that is unnecessary, Write-Output is called implicitly. You could achieve the same thing with just:
Get-ChildItem $path -Name
I wanted just a list of files sorted by size without directory headers. I used this to accomplish it.
get-childitem foldername -file -recurse | select FullName,Length | sort Length -descending | export-csv c:\export.csv
