make script more robust

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make script more robust

Jeffrey Williams

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April 14, 2022 at 2:51 pm
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You need to pass something to export-cdv
$matched_itrms | Export-Csv ...
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Bruin SSCommitted Points: 1829 More actions · Answer 1

Are you referring to the multiple job outputs? We have a nightly process that copies previous days logs\output to a archive folder, so actually we won't get multiple outputs.

Bruin SSCommitted Points: 1829 More actions · Answer 2

Jeff,

Looks like your mockup is exactly what I looking for, it doesn't seem to be finding anything from match_array . Would case

have any bearing on Matches?

Thanks again for your help much apprciated.

Jeffrey Williams SSC Guru Points: 89773 More actions · Answer 3

Yes, case is important. You can use -ilike I think.

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Bruin SSCommitted Points: 1829 More actions · Answer 4

I tried to goggle what you mentioned but above, but didn't find examples..

Thanks.

Bruin SSCommitted Points: 1829 More actions · Answer 5

When I run this code:

It pops up a message:

cmdlet Export-Csv at command pipeline position 1

Supply values for the following parameters:

InputObject:

Not sure why it's doing this..

$match_array = "error", "failed";
$folders = Get-Content "c:\temp\ListOfFolders.txt";
$folders | % {
    $folder = $_;
    $match_array | % {
        $matched_items = Get-ChildItem $folder | Select-String -Pattern $_ | Select-Object -Property Path,LineNumber,Line;
        Export-CSV "c:\temp\ErrorCapture0413.csv" -Append -NoTypeInformation;
    }
}