Trying to simplify Powershell Code to Single Line - powershell

Question

The following snippet of code gets a list of paths, converts each character of each path to its ASCII value and stores this in a variable named $output
$itemlist = (Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Path "$data_path").FullName
Foreach($item in $itemlist)
{
$output+= [int[]]#("$item").ToCharArray() -join ',' | Out-String
}
Write-Host $output
I'm trying to get all this in a single line (due to a complicated reason that prevents me from running a Powershell script) so I can run a single Powershell command to get the same effect but so far I'm having a hard time.
Given below is what I've managed to achieve.
(Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Path "$data_path").FullName | Format-Table -Property #{n='';e={[int[]]#($_).ToCharArray() -join ','}} | Out-Host
The output however doesn't have the ASCII values, the paths in the output are represented in characters. Can someone please help me out with this ?

Answer 1

How you should be doing it if you're running this from cmd.exe:
$Command = #'
$itemlist = (Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Path "$data_path").FullName
Foreach($item in $itemlist)
{
$output+= [int[]]#("$item").ToCharArray() -join ',' | Out-String
}
Write-Host $output
'#
[Convert]::ToBase64String([Text.Encoding]::Unicode.GetBytes($Command))
End result:
powershell.exe -NoProfile -NoLogo -EncodedCommand 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

Answer 2

If this is turning into a short contest..
ls $data_path -r|%{($_|% f*|% t*y|% toi*2 $null)-join','}|out-string

Answer 3

I guess you can use this:
(Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Path "$data_path").FullName | ForEach-Object { [int[]]#("$_").ToCharArray() -join ',' } | Out-String

Answer 4

$itemlist = (Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Path "$data_path").FullName; Foreach($item in $itemlist){$output+= [int[]]#("$item").ToCharArray() -join ',' | Out-String};Write-Host $output

Answer 5

Get-ChildItem -Path "$data_path" | ForEach-Object { [int[]][char[]]$_.FullName -join ',' }
Get-ChildItem -Path "$data_path" | ForEach-Object { [int[]]#($_.FullName).ToCharArray() -join ',' }

Answer 6

Using aliases is all I can think of to shorten it further than anyone has so far:
ls "$data_path" -r | %{[int[]]#($_.FullName).ToCharArray() -join ","} | Out-String

Answer 7

$itemlist = (Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Path "$data_path").FullName
Foreach($item in $itemlist)
{
$output+= [int[]]#("$item").ToCharArray() -join ',' | Out-String
}
Write-Host $output