Question

Having what seems to be a basic problem in Powershell. I am doing a simple copy-item script from a UNC share to the local C:\ drive. Here is my code:

$hostname = $env:computername    
Copy-Item -Path '\\server\share\$hostname.txt' -Destination 'C:\'

I can’t figure out the syntax to have it retrieve the text file that matches the name of the hostname using the variable. If I put in a statically named .txt file that code works.

What do I have to put around that variable for it to work?

Answer 1

You need to replace your single quotes with double quotes like this:

$hostname = $env:computername

Copy-Item -Path "\\server\share\$hostname.txt" -Destination 'C:\'