It might be that the title of the question is somewhat misleading, but I suspect that there has been done some changes from 2.0 to 4.0 which I am not aware of...so here goes
The following code will provide me with the expected result on our Windows 2008 servers using Powershell 2.0
## Get files/items using above variables
$LogFiles = @(Get-ChildItem "$IhsLogFolder\*.*" -include $LogFileMatch)
$log.debugFormat("Found in {0} are {1}", $IhsLogFolder, $LogFiles)
foreach ($LogFile in $LogFiles) {
$log.debugFormat("Found {0}", $LogFile.Name)
}
$LogFiles += @(Get-ChildItem "$PluginLogFolder" -recurse -include $LogFileMatch)
$log.debugFormat("Found in {0} are {1}", $PluginLogFolder, $LogFiles)
The command being executed will be
Get-ChildItem e:\logs\HTTPServer\*.* -include error.log,access.log,http_plugin.log
and
Get-ChildItem e:\logs\WebPlugin\webserver\*.* -include error.log,access.log,http_plugin.log
Trying the same script on Windows 2012 with Powershell 4.0 the above code will not return any files, but if I try just the command in Powershell it will find files
PS C:\> Get-ChildItem e:\logs\HTTPServer\*.* -include error.log,access.log,http_plugin.log
Directory: E:\logs\HTTPServer
Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
-a--- 20.10.2015 15:35 4296922 access.log
-a--- 19.10.2015 15:26 189102 error.log
Are there any obvious reasons for the @(Get-ChildItem... not returning files in Powershell 4.0?
Update
- Ref. comment - Yes I'm sure that $log is not the problem
- I did just figure out that the following does work (hardcoding the include)
$LogFiles = @(Get-ChildItem "$IhsLogFolder\*.*" -include error.log,access.log,http_plugin.log), applying the include as a variable with more than one file does not return any results on our 4.0 servers, but using the variable and just a single file works.
A better code snippet
$pathToFolder = "d:\temp\*.*"
# This does not return results
$includeFile = "file1.txt,file2.txt"
# This will return results
#$includeFile = "file1.txt"
Write-Host $includeFile
# Below does not work if more than one file in the include
#$result = @(Get-ChildItem $pathToFolder -include $includeFile)
# Below does work even if more than one file in the include
$result = @(Get-ChildItem $pathToFolder -include file1.txt,file2.txt)
Write-Host $result
if ($result) {
Write-Host "Yes"
} else {
Write-Host "No"
}`
