Powershell Script - Monitor and Run

spiceuser-1uecd · 2021-08-02T13:37:54.000Z

How to monitor a folder for a new sub-folder created and then monitor the new subfolder for a file for a specific timeframe? When the file is detected within the timeframe, run another file in a different drive and exit. If the file is not detected within the timeframe, then exit?

$watcher = New-Object System.IO.FileSystemWatcher
$watcher.Path = 'Z:\abc'
$watcher.Filter ='*.*'
IncludeSubdirectories = $true
$watcher.Filter = 'xyz.txt'
$watcher.EnableRaisingEvents  = $true

$onCreated = Register-ObjectEvent $fsw Created -SourceIdentifier FileCreated -action {
$path =$event.SourceEventArgs.FullPath
         $changeType + $Event.SourceEventsArgs. ChangeType

...STUCK HERE

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Neally · 2021-08-02T13:40:19.000Z

‘get-childitem’ or Filesystemwatcher would be 2 ways.

What have you tried? Where are you stuck?

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DoctorDNS · 2021-08-03T11:59:36.000Z

Some comments:

Not sure what you mean by this line:

IncludeSubdirectories = $true

That is not Powershell syntax and does not appear to be part of the previous line?

You set $Watcher.Filter twice. From looking at the API docs, the second assignment statement just overwrites the first one. Which I suspect is not what you wanted.
I am not sure what you are doing here:

$onCreated = Register-ObjectEvent $fsw Created -SourceIdentifier FileCreated -action {
$path =$event.SourceEventArgs.FullPath
         $changeType + $Event.SourceEventsArgs. ChangeType

A personal preference is to define the script block to be used in the -Action parameter But there are several issues - there is no closing “}”. Also The final line is not proper syntax. Not sure what $changeType is meant to be - and also there is an erroneous space before the word ChangeType

I am not sure what you are wanting to do so I can;t comment more fully.

Another tip: always use VS code to develop your scripts - they would have shouted about the syntax errors I pointed out above!