Question

I’m trying to get it to recurse through a directory, and include only .pdf files. Then return the 3 most recently modified .pdf‘s, and stick each of their (full) filenames into their respective variables.

Here’s my code so far –

$Directory="C:\PDFs"
Get-ChildItem -path $Directory -recurse -include *.pdf | sort-object -Property LastWriteTime -Descending | select-object -First 3 | ForEach-Object 
    {
        Write-Host -FilePath $_.fullname
    }

However, when I run the script, it asks me to provide parameters for the ForEach portion of the script – Which leaves me to conclude that either the command isn’t piping the way it should, or the command isn’t being using the command properly.

Answer 1

Remove the enter after the foreach-object:

$Directory="C:\PDFs"
Get-ChildItem -path $Directory -recurse -include *.pdf | sort-object -Property LastWriteTime -Descending | select-object -First 3 | ForEach-Object {
        Write-Host -FilePath $_.fullname   }

There’s a typo in your code:

**    Get-ChildItem =path  **