Error in foreach function in powershell

Question

Below is the code snippet i tried but having an error because of it can anyone helpme in editing this one

  $colItems4 = Get-WMIObject -class Win32_PhysicalMemory | Measure-Object -Property capacity -Sum | 
       foreach ($objItem4 in $colItems4 )
       {
             write-host "Total Physical Ram : " $objItem4.Sum 
       }

I will also point out that you don't need that last pipe and that alone may be the problem. — EBGreen, Jul 16 '13 at 19:45
Wanted to find the Memory size of all the systems in the network with computer names provided to them the code above is just a small bit of the code — Illuminati, Jul 16 '13 at 20:12
Kevin can you please help me in the other thread posted please http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17679674/how-to-store-data-from-foreach-function-in-html-file-in-powershell-and-get-physi?rq=1 — Illuminati, Jul 16 '13 at 20:13

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 16 '13 at 20:03

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You already had it. You just added too much.

Gwmi win32_PhysicalMemory | Measure-Object -Property Capacity -Sum

And if you wanted to show only the sum then:

Gwmi win32_physcialmemory | measure-object -property Capacity -sum | select sum

answered Jul 16 '13 at 20:03

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 16 '13 at 19:52

$colItems4 = Get-WMIObject -class Win32_PhysicalMemory | Measure-Object -Property capacity -Sum
foreach ($objItem4 in $colItems4 )
{
     write-host "Total Physical Ram : " $objItem4.Sum 
}

Your code works fine. You just have an extra pipe at the end of your gwmi cmdlet.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 16 '13 at 19:51

   $colItems4 = Get-WMIObject -class Win32_PhysicalMemory  -computername $strComputer
      $colItems5=$colItems4 | Measure-Object -Property capacity -Sum 
      foreach ($objItem4 in $colItems5)
   {

      write-host "Memory :  " $colItems5.Sum
   }

Will solve the problem :D

Error in foreach function in powershell

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