Re: Powershell frustration....
I think you just want to put it into single quotes? Double quotes will expand the $webApp variable, single quotes won't. e.g. New-SPWebApplication -Name '$webApp.Name' -HostHeader etc Cheers, Tony On 9/01/2012 4:55 PM, Nigel Witherdin wrote: Hey All, An easy one Im sure, but I havent been able to come up with the right google search string to fine the answer myself I am writing a script that parses an XML file and creates web app, site coll, content db etc. based on the xml. All works ok, except when people put spaces into names (like web app name or app pool name, etc. - damn users!). So what ends up in my script is something like: New-SPWebApplication -Name $webApp.Name -HostHeader . etc. I need some way of delimiting the variable $webApp.Name but still resolving it to its value (not its type, which is what happens when you simply put: -Name $webApp.Name in the command). Really frustrating as I know I have already figured this out before, but cant find the script I had it in, so am not sure what I did for it (grrr) Thanks Nigel ___ ozmoss mailing list ozmoss@ozmoss.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozmoss ___ ozmoss mailing list ozmoss@ozmoss.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozmoss
Re: Powershell frustration....
Alternatively, delimiting the value with quotes might work:
e.g.
New-SPWebApplication -Name ('{0}' -f $webApp.Name) -HostHeader etc
On 9/01/2012 6:51 PM, Tony McGee wrote:
I think you just want to put it into single quotes? Double quotes will
expand the $webApp variable, single quotes won't.
e.g.
New-SPWebApplication -Name '$webApp.Name' -HostHeader etc
Cheers,
Tony
On 9/01/2012 4:55 PM, Nigel Witherdin wrote:
Hey All,
An easy one Im sure, but I havent been able to come up with the right
google search string to fine the answer myself
I am writing a script that parses an XML file and creates web app,
site coll, content db etc. based on the xml. All works ok, except
when people put spaces into names (like web app name or app pool
name, etc. - damn users!). So what ends up in my script is something
like:
New-SPWebApplication -Name $webApp.Name -HostHeader . etc.
I need some way of delimiting the variable $webApp.Name but still
resolving it to its value (not its type, which is what happens when
you simply put: -Name $webApp.Name in the command). Really
frustrating as I know I have already figured this out before, but
cant find the script I had it in, so am not sure what I did for it (grrr)
Thanks
Nigel
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RE: Powershell frustration....
Found that if I use:
New-SPWebApplication -Name ({0} -f $webApp.Name) -HostHeader
that because it converts the XmlAttribute to a string, it seems to delimits the
string variable automatically (happy days!), so I dont need to delimit at all.
Many thanks
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 20:09:10 +1000
From: tmcgee...@gmail.com
To: ozmoss@ozmoss.com
Subject: Re: Powershell frustration
Alternatively, delimiting the value with quotes might work:
e.g.
New-SPWebApplication -Name ('{0}' -f $webApp.Name) -HostHeader etc
On 9/01/2012 6:51 PM, Tony McGee wrote:
I think you just want to put it into single quotes? Double quotes will expand
the $webApp variable, single quotes won't.
e.g.
New-SPWebApplication -Name '$webApp.Name' -HostHeader etc
Cheers,
Tony
On 9/01/2012 4:55 PM, Nigel Witherdin wrote:
Hey All,
An easy one Im sure, but I havent been able to come up with the right google
search string to fine the answer myself
I am writing a script that parses an XML file and creates web app, site coll,
content db etc. based on the xml. All works ok, except when people put spaces
into names (like web app name or app pool name, etc. - damn users!). So what
ends up in my script is something like:
New-SPWebApplication -Name $webApp.Name -HostHeader . etc.
I need some way of delimiting the variable $webApp.Name but still resolving it
to its value (not its type, which is what happens when you simply put: -Name
$webApp.Name in the command). Really frustrating as I know I have already
figured this out before, but cant find the script I had it in, so am not sure
what I did for it (grrr)
Thanks
Nigel
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Powershell frustration....
Hey All, An easy one Im sure, but I havent been able to come up with the right google search string to fine the answer myself I am writing a script that parses an XML file and creates web app, site coll, content db etc. based on the xml. All works ok, except when people put spaces into names (like web app name or app pool name, etc. - damn users!). So what ends up in my script is something like: New-SPWebApplication -Name $webApp.Name -HostHeader . etc. I need some way of delimiting the variable $webApp.Name but still resolving it to its value (not its type, which is what happens when you simply put: -Name $webApp.Name in the command). Really frustrating as I know I have already figured this out before, but cant find the script I had it in, so am not sure what I did for it (grrr) Thanks Nigel ___ ozmoss mailing list ozmoss@ozmoss.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozmoss
