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Excellent explanation and very helpful thanks
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Excellent explanation and very helpful thanks

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Can anyone tell me why the following command creates the text file but does not populate it with any data?<br />
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Invoke-Command -ComputerName server1 -ScriptBlock {Set-Variable -Name wind -Value 'C:\Windows'}<br />
Invoke-Command -ComputerName server1 -ScriptBlock {Get-ChildItem -Path $wind -name} | Out-File -FilePath C:\test\test.txt<br />
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but the following works fine and creates the data<br />
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Invoke-Command -ComputerName server1 -ScriptBlock {Get-ChildItem -Path C:\Windows -name} | Out-File -FilePath C:\test\test.txt
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Can anyone tell me why the following command creates the text file but does not populate it with any data?

Invoke-Command -ComputerName server1 -ScriptBlock {Set-Variable -Name wind -Value 'C:\Windows'}
Invoke-Command -ComputerName server1 -ScriptBlock {Get-ChildItem -Path $wind -name} | Out-File -FilePath C:\test\test.txt

but the following works fine and creates the data

Invoke-Command -ComputerName server1 -ScriptBlock {Get-ChildItem -Path C:\Windows -name} | Out-File -FilePath C:\test\test.txt

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