Question

I can format the Get-Date cmdlet no problem like this:

$date = Get-Date -format "yyyyMMdd"

But once I’ve got a date in a variable, how do I format it? The statement below

$dateStr = $date -format "yyyMMdd"

returns this error:

“You must provide a value expression
on the right-hand side of the ‘-f’
operator”

Answer 1

The same as you would in .NET:

$DateStr = $Date.ToString("yyyyMMdd")

Or:

$DateStr = '{0:yyyyMMdd}' -f $Date

Note that you can have a format string that gets multiple objects. For example:

'From {0:M/d/yyyy} to {1:M/d/yyyy}' -f $Date, $Date.AddDays(7)