Powershell：如何为电子邮件格式化Get-Childitem？

Question

Simply put, I'm trying to send an email from a Powershell script which lists the contents of a directory.

In order to do this, I'm storing text in a variable, then inserting this variable into Send-MailMessage .

My problem is this. When I pipe the object to Out-String as follows, it doesn't insert newlines:

$mailbody += "<p>" + (get-childitem $path | select-object Name | Out-String -width 40) + "</P>"

Obviously, when Get-Childitem is entered at the prompt, the output is nicely formatted with newlines, however when stored to a variable then emailed (in an HTML email), there are no newlines, which results in an unreadable, long string of filenames.

How do I do this?

Answer 1

You can use the ConvertTo-Html cmdlet to do this:

get-childitem $path | select-object Name | ConvertTo-Html -fragment

It will create a nice table for you that can be sent in an HTML email. The -fragment part removes the head and body etc. and gives only the table.

Answer 2

How about using the ConvertTo-Html cmdlet? Fill in your environment info.

$path = "C:\"
[string] $html = dir $path | ConvertTo-Html

$smptServer = ''
$to = ''
$from = ''
$subject = 'Test'
Send-MailMessage -To $to -From $from -Body $html -BodyAsHtml -SmtpServer $smptServer -Subject $subject

EDIT - This works, but the email looks like crap. If you want it to look exactly like it does when you do a dir in the PowerShell window use this:

[string] $html = dir $path | Select Mode, LastWriteTime, Length, Name | ConvertTo-Html