Insert Username in to file path Powershell

Question

We are in the process of trying to tidy up our users home directories and speed up some office 2007 performance by moving all their templates in to a new directory on their user drive (U:). During my initial tests I can get the below script to work fine though it has the obvious problem of only working for my username. Is there a way to get it to take the currently logging in user? Before this would be handled by %username% and from a brief scan of the internet apparently:

$[Environment]::UserName

Should work. However I seem to be getting errors. Is there a better way to achieve the current logging in users name in to the file path?

if (!(Test-Path -path '\\SERVER\PATH\TO FILES\$[Environment]::UserName\Normal\'))
{
New-Item '\\SERVER\PATH\TO FILES\$[Environment]::UserName\Normal\' -type directory
##Move-Item \\SERVER\PATH\TO FILES\$env:username\Normal.dot \\\SERVER\PATH\TO FILES\$env:username\Normal\
## Move-Item \\SERVER\PATH\TO FILES\$env:username\*.dotm \\SERVER\PATH\TO FILES\%username%\Normal\
}
else
{
"No work to do"
}

See also https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2085744/how-to-get-current-username-in-windows-powershell — Michael Freidgeim, Jun 26 '17 at 11:17

OldFart · Accepted Answer · 2010-11-29T16:40:47.530

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Two problems. If you want variable/expression substitution to take place in a string, you need to use quotation-marks, not apostrophes, to enclose the string. In this case, you also need to add some parenthesis to denote an expression within the string.

"\\SERVER\PATH\TO FILES\$([Environment]::UserName)\Normal\"

edited Nov 29 '10 at 16:40

answered Nov 29 '10 at 16:14

OldFart

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`$env:USERNAME` is more PowerShell-ish, perhaps: `"\\SERVER\PATH\TO FILES\$env:USERNAME\Normal\"` – Roman Kuzmin Nov 29 '10 at 16:19

Insert Username in to file path Powershell

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