Get-ChildItem -Path in NLog file - powershell

Question

If I have this:
Get-ChildItem -Path $BACKUP_REG_PATH >> $TOT_LOG_FILE
I will get a fine list in my log file like this:
Directory: C:\WS\BACKUP\xxxx-Reg
Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
-a--- 2016-05-17 11:04 494018 xxxxxx_REGISTRY_EVENTLOG__2016-05-17__11_04_38.reg
-a--- 2016-05-17 11:08 494018 xxxxxx_REGISTRY_EVENTLOG__2016-05-17__11_08_59.reg
-a--- 2016-05-17 11:10 494018 xxxxx_REGISTRY_EVENTLOG__2016-05-17__11_10_31.reg
I want to do this for NLog instead but I don't know how to get a nice list as above.
If I do this:
$regtxt=Get-ChildItem -Path $BACKUP_REG_PATH
$LOGGER.Trace("$regtxt");
I only get a long list on the same row with the Name column.
Any ideas how to solve this?

Answer 1

I don't know NLog but the Trace method probably output the trace in a single line. You could iterate over each item using the Foreach-Object cmdlet and write a trace:
Get-ChildItem -Path $BACKUP_REG_PATH | Foreach-Object {
$LOGGER.Trace($_);
}
Note: This will not output the name column, you may have to trace this yourself.
To solve this, you could pipe the output to the Out-String cmdlet which will give you a single string. You then have to split the string by [System.Environment]::NewLine to get an array to iterate over it:
((Get-ChildItem | select -first 4 | Out-String) -split [System.Environment]::NewLine) |
ForEach-Object {
$LOGGER.Trace($_);
}