Question

I am trying to define an array of file paths that I can loop over and apply user permissions to. Some of these paths have spaces in them, and the way I’m trying to define the array variable, I cannot loop over them.

$rootSitePath = "C:\Path"

$paths = $rootSitePath + "\" + "Path1",
         $rootSitePath + "\" + "Path with spaces",
         $rootSitePath = "\" + "Path3"

foreach($path in $paths)
{
   #do stuff
}

Not sure if I need to escape in a certain way??

Answer 1

No, you don’t need to do anything special – but you do need to put parenthesis around the array items as you have them above. try:

$rootSitePath = "C:\Path"

$paths = ($rootSitePath + "\" + "Path1"),
         ($rootSitePath + "\" + "Path with spaces"),
         ($rootSitePath + "\" + "Path3")

foreach($path in $paths)
{
   get-childitem $path
}