Question

I am trying to write a powershell script that will set a download directory variable based on the current directory, and download a file to that directory.

The code I have is:

cd downloads
$DevDownloadDirectory = [IO.Directory]::GetCurrentDirectory

$clnt = New-Object System.Net.WebClient

# download and extract the file
$url = “fileurl/file.zip"
$file = "$DevDownloadDirectory\file.zip"
$clnt.DownloadFile($url,$file)

The problem I get is whenever I get to this part of the code it pumps out:

Exception calling “DownloadFile” with “2” argument(s): “An exception
occurred during a WebClient request.” At C:\directory\script.ps1:462
char:20

• $clnt.DownloadFile <<<< ($url,$file)
• CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
• FullyQualifiedErrorId : DotNetMethodException

Could anyone please help me figure out why this is happening?

Answer 1

$DevDownloadDirectory = [IO.Directory]::GetCurrentDirectory

Should be

$DevDownloadDirectory = [IO.Directory]::GetCurrentDirectory()

GetCurrentDirectory() is a Method and if you dont use the “()”, it will just return the same name but not the current directory.