Attachments.Add wildcard with Powershell - powershell

Question

I have a ZIP file generated with dynamic information (Report_ PC Name-Date_User). However when I go to attach the file I'm unable to use a wildcard. There is only one ZIP file in this directory so using a wildcard will not attach any other ZIP files.
#Directory storage
$DIR = "$ENV:TEMP"
#Max number of recent screen captures
$MAX = "100"
#Captures Screen Shots from the recording
$SC = "1"
#Turn GUI mode on or off
$GUI = "0"
#Caputres the current computer name
$PCName = "$ENV:COMPUTERNAME"
#Use either the local name or domain name
#$User = "$ENV:UserDomainName"
$User = "$ENV:UserName"
#Timestamp
$Date = Get-Date -UFormat %Y-%b-%d_%H%M
#Computer Information
$MAC = ipconfig /all | Select-String Physical
$IP = ipconfig /all | Select-String IPv4
$DNS = ipconfig /all | Select-String "DNS Servers"
#Needed to add space after user input information
$EMPT = "`n"
#Quick capture of the computer information
$Info = #"
$EMPT
*** COMPUTER INFORMATION ***
$PCName
$IP
$MAC
$DNS
"#
# Used to attach to the outlook program
$File = Get-ChildItem -Path $Dir -Filter "*.zip" | Select -Last 1 -ExpandProperty Fullname
$Start_Click = {
psr.exe /start /output $DIR\$Date-$PCName-$User.zip /maxsc $MAX /sc $SC /gui $GUI
}
$Stop_Click={
psr.exe /stop
}
$Email_Click = {
$Outlook = New-Object -Com Outlook.Application
$Mail = $Outlook.CreateItem(0)
$Mail.To = "deaconf19#gmail.com"
$Mail.Subject = "Capture Report from " + $PCName + " " + $User + " " + $Date
$Mail.Body = $Problem.text + $Info
$Mail.Attachments.Add($File)
$Mail.Send()
}
I no longer get an error but the file will not attach the first time around. The second time it will attach but it does the previous .zip not the most recent. I added my entire code

Answer 1

As per the msdn article it shows what the source needs to be which is.
The source of the attachment. This can be a file (represented by the
full file system path with a file name) or an Outlook item that
constitutes the attachment.
Which mean that it does not accept wildcards. To get around this you should instead use Get-ChildItem to return the name of your zip.
$File = Get-ChildItem -Path $Dir -Filter "*.zip" | Select -First 1 -ExpandProperty Fullname
That should return the full path to the first zip. Since Get-ChildItem returns and object we use -ExpandProperty on the Fullname so that you just return the full path, as a string, to the file. -First 1 is not truly required if you really only have the one file. On the off-chance you do including -First 1 will make sure only one file is attached.
Update from comments
I see that you are having issues with attaching a file still. My code would still stand however you might be having an issue with your .zip file or $dir. After where $file is declared I would suggest something like this:
If (! Test-Path $file){Write-Host "$file is not a valid zip file"}
If you would prefer, since I don't know if you see your console when you are running your code, you could use a popup