crownedjitter’s helpful answer is a good starting point, and Travis himself has provided additional pointers in comments, but let me try to summarize as of Windows PowerShell v5.1 / PowerShell [Core] 7.1: Update: The original answer, reprinted in the section after this one, contains some useful general pointers, plus a link to the feature suggestion … Read more
Try this expression: “Error importing row no\. (\d+):” DEMO Here you need to understand the quantifiers and escaped sequences: . any character; as you want only numbers, use \d; if you meant the period character you must escape it with a backslash (\.) ? Zero or one character; this isn’t what do you want, as … Read more
To summarize and complement gravity’s and Brian Reynolds’s helpful answers: There are two distinct problems with your approach: Targeting C: probably doesn’t (always) do what you want, because C: refers to whatever happens to be the current location (working dir.) on drive C: at the moment. To target the root folder of drive C:, you … Read more
In PowerShell 4 (3+ actually) the easiest way is to use the Using scope modifier: Invoke-Command -ComputerName winserver -ScriptBlock { Get-FileHash E:\test\$Using:dest.zip -Algorithm SHA1 } For a solution that works with all versions: Invoke-Command -ComputerName winserver -ScriptBlock { param($myDest) Get-FileHash E:\test\$myDest.zip -Algorithm SHA1 } -ArgumentList $dest