Power Shell: Save Path after file is found via foreach loop - powershell

Question

I´m still quite new to PS, so it might be easy to answer for the veterans.
I want to grab the path of a file after a search through the drives.
Current code:
$Drives = Get-PSDrive -PSProvider 'FileSystem'
foreach($Drive in $Drives)
{
Get-ChildItem -Path $Drive.Root -include FindMe.txt -Recurse -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Invoke-Item
}
The goal is to save info like BIOS info in the found file.
But how can I grab the Path of the file or the found file itself to use it as a save file?
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

As commenter Lee_Dailey suggested, just assign the command output to a variable and use the FullName property of the FileInfo class to get the absolute file path.
$Drives = Get-PSDrive -PSProvider 'FileSystem'
$foundPath = foreach($Drive in $Drives)
{
# Find first file named FindMe.txt
$found = Get-ChildItem -Path $Drive.Root -Filter FindMe.txt -Recurse -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue |
Select-Object -First 1
if( $found ) {
# Output the full path of the found file.
# This is implicit output which PowerShell captures in $foundPath
$found.FullName
break
}
}
# Output found path to the console
$foundPath
Notes:
I've replaced -Include by -Filter which is more efficient because it is handled by the underlying .NET filesystem API. Using -Include the API would return all files and the filtering would be done by PowerShell, which is slower.
I've added Select-Object -First 1 to stop searching when the first file named 'FindMe.txt' has been found.
Remove | Select-Object -First 1 to get all files named 'FindMe.txt'. In this case, $found will be an array when more than one files are found. Also $found.FullName could resolve as an array due to member access enumeration.