In PowerShell, how do you set-content to a new child directory?

Question

I have this to make file in current directory:

% { (New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadData($_) | Set-Content -Path $_ -Encoding Byte };

...and I was trying some like:

% { (New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadData($_) | Set-Content -Path ..\qq\$_ -Encoding Byte };

So... it doesn't work for some reason, I know something was missing; but totally forgot how to do it D;

[EDIT] I can do instead Set-Content something like New-Item and resolve the "path" problem but it doesnt accept -Encoding Byte and the final files will be broke.

Answer 1

Based on the MSDN docu :

Set-Content -Path .\DateTime.txt -Value (Get-Date)

Below example downloads a 1MB big test file and stores the content to a temporary file:

$tempFile = New-TemporaryFile
Set-Content -Value (New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadData("http://ovh.net/files/1Mb.dat") -Path $tempFile -Encoding Byte
Get-Content $tempFile

Hope that helps.